ight, and the gate St. Andrew,--and on the left, between St. Magdalen's
and the river.

As this was the most memorable attack in the whole war,--the most
gallant and obstinate on both sides,--and I must add the most bloody
too, for it cost the allies themselves that morning above eleven hundred
men,--my uncle Toby prepared himself for it with a more than ordinary
solemnity.

The eve which preceded, as my uncle Toby went to bed, he ordered his
ramallie wig, which had laid inside out for many years in the corner of
an old campaigning trunk, which stood by his bedside, to be taken out
and laid upon the lid of it, ready for the morning;--and the very first
thing he did in his shirt, when he had stepped out of bed, my uncle
Toby, after he had turned the rough side outwards,--put it on:--This
done, he proceeded next to his breeches, and having buttoned the
waist-band, he forthwith buckled on his sword-belt, and had got his
sword half way in,--when he considered he should want shaving, and that
it would be very inconvenient doing it with his sword on,--so took it
off:--In essaying to put on his regimental coat and waistcoat, my uncle
Toby found the same objection in his wig,--so that went off too:--So
that what with one thing and what with another, as always falls out when
a man is in the most haste,--'twas ten o'clock, which was half an hour
later than his usual time, before my uncle Toby sallied out.

Chapter 3.LXVIII.

My uncle Toby had scarce turned the corner of his yew hedge, which
separated his kitchen-garden from his bowling-green, when he perceived
the corporal had begun the attack without him.--

Let me stop and give you a picture of the corporal's apparatus; and of
the corporal himself in the height of his attack, just as it struck my
uncle Toby, as he turned towards the sentry-box, where the corporal
was at work,--for in nature there is not such another,--nor can any
combination of all that is grotesque and whimsical in her works produce
its equal.

The corporal--

--Tread lightly on his ashes, ye men of genius,--for he was your
kinsman:

Weed his grave clean, ye men of goodness,--for he was your brother.--Oh
corporal! had I thee, but now,--now, that I am able to give thee a
dinner and protection,--how would I cherish thee! thou should'st wear
thy Montero-cap every hour of the day, and every day of the week.--and
when it was worn out, I would purchase thee a couple like it:--But alas!
alas! alas! now