fs, as well as the
puffing, had insensibly got hold of the corporal, and drawn him on from
puff to puff, into the very height of the attack, by the time my uncle
Toby joined him.

'Twas well for my father, that my uncle Toby had not his will to make
that day.

Chapter 3.LXXI.

My uncle Toby took the ivory pipe out of the corporal's hand,--looked at
it for half a minute, and returned it.

In less than two minutes, my uncle Toby took the pipe from the corporal
again, and raised it half way to his mouth--then hastily gave it back a
second time.

The corporal redoubled the attack,--my uncle Toby smiled,--then looked
grave,--then smiled for a moment,--then looked serious for a long
time;--Give me hold of the ivory pipe, Trim, said my uncle Toby--my
uncle Toby put it to his lips,--drew it back directly,--gave a peep over
the horn-beam hedge;--never did my uncle Toby's mouth water so much for
a pipe in his life.--My uncle Toby retired into the sentry-box with the
pipe in his hand.--

--Dear uncle Toby! don't go into the sentry-box with the pipe,--there's
no trusting a man's self with such a thing in such a corner.

Chapter 3.LXXII.

I beg the reader will assist me here, to wheel off my uncle Toby's
ordnance behind the scenes,--to remove his sentry-box, and clear the
theatre, if possible, of horn-works and half moons, and get the rest
of his military apparatus out of the way;--that done, my dear friend
Garrick, we'll snuff the candles bright,--sweep the stage with a new
broom,--draw up the curtain, and exhibit my uncle Toby dressed in a new
character, throughout which the world can have no idea how he will act:
and yet, if pity be a-kin to love,--and bravery no alien to it, you have
seen enough of my uncle Toby in these, to trace these family likenesses,
betwixt the two passions (in case there is one) to your heart's content.

Vain science! thou assistest us in no case of this kind--and thou
puzzlest us in every one.

There was, Madam, in my uncle Toby, a singleness of heart which misled
him so far out of the little serpentine tracks in which things of this
nature usually go on; you can--you can have no conception of it: with
this, there was a plainness and simplicity of thinking, with such
an unmistrusting ignorance of the plies and foldings of the heart of
woman;--and so naked and defenceless did he stand before you, (when a
siege was out of his head,) that you might have stood behind any one
of your ser