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When Trim came in and told my father, that Dr. Slop was in the kitchen, and busy in making a bridge -- my uncle Toby -- -- -the affair of the jackboots having just then raised a train of military ideas in his brain -- -- -took it instantly for granted that Dr. Slop was making a model of the marquis d'Hôpital's bridge.
-- -- 'Tis very obliging in him, quoth my uncle Toby; -- pray give my humble service to Dr. Slop, Trim, and tell him I thank him heartily.