XXIII
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⸺⁠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.⁠⸺⁠

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