The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

I must observe, that although in the first year's campaign, the word town is often mentioned, -- yet there was no town at that time within the polygon; that addition was not made till the summer following the spring in which the bridges and sentry-box were painted, which was the third year of my uncle Toby's campaigns, -- when upon his taking Amberg, Bonn, and Rhinberg, and Huy and Limbourg, one after another, a thought came into the corporal's head, that to talk of taking so many towns, without one town to show for it, -- was a very nonsensical way of going to work, and so proposed to my uncle Toby, that they should have a little model of a town built for them, -- to be run up together of slit deals, and then painted, and clapped within the interior polygon to serve for all.

My uncle Toby felt the good of the project instantly, and instantly agreed to it, but with the addition of two singular improvements, of which he was almost as proud as if he had been the original inventor of the project itself.