e?

With humble submission to his honour's better judgment, quoth the
corporal, making a bow to my uncle Toby--Speak thy opinion freely,
corporal, said my uncle Toby.--The poor fellow is my servant,--not my
slave,--added my uncle Toby, turning to my father.--

The corporal put his hat under his left arm, and with his stick hanging
upon the wrist of it, by a black thong split into a tassel about the
knot, he marched up to the ground where he had performed his catechism;
then touching his under-jaw with the thumb and fingers of his right hand
before he opened his mouth,--he delivered his notion thus.

Chapter 3.XXXIX.

Just as the corporal was humming, to begin--in waddled Dr. Slop.--'Tis
not two-pence matter--the corporal shall go on in the next chapter, let
who will come in.--

Well, my good doctor, cried my father sportively, for the transitions of
his passions were unaccountably sudden,--and what has this whelp of mine
to say to the matter?

Had my father been asking after the amputation of the tail of a
puppy-dog--he could not have done it in a more careless air: the system
which Dr. Slop had laid down, to treat the accident by, no way allowed
of such a mode of enquiry.--He sat down.

Pray, Sir, quoth my uncle Toby, in a manner which could not go
unanswered,--in what condition is the boy?--'Twill end in a phimosis,
replied Dr. Slop.

I am no wiser than I was, quoth my uncle Toby--returning his pipe
into his mouth.--Then let the corporal go on, said my father, with his
medical lecture.--The corporal made a bow to his old friend, Dr. Slop,
and then delivered his opinion concerning radical heat and radical
moisture, in the following words.

Chapter 3.XL.

The city of Limerick, the siege of which was begun under his majesty
king William himself, the year after I went into the army--lies,
an' please your honours, in the middle of a devilish wet, swampy
country.--'Tis quite surrounded, said my uncle Toby, with the Shannon,
and is, by its situation, one of the strongest fortified places in
Ireland.--

I think this is a new fashion, quoth Dr. Slop, of beginning a medical
lecture.--'Tis all true, answered Trim.--Then I wish the faculty would
follow the cut of it, said Yorick.--'Tis all cut through, an' please
your reverence, said the corporal, with drains and bogs; and besides,
there was such a quantity of rain fell during the siege, the whole
country was like a puddle,--'twas that, and nothing else, wh