--Then, Yorick, replied my uncle Toby, you and I will lead the way abreast,--and do you, corporal, follow a few paces behind us.--And Susannah, an' please your honour, said Trim, shall be put in the rear.--'Twas an excellent disposition,--and in this order, without either drums beating, or colours flying, they marched slowly from my uncle Toby's house to Shandy-hall.

--I wish, said Trim, as they entered the door,--instead of the sash weights, I had cut off the church spout, as I once thought to have done.--You have cut off spouts enow, replied Yorick.