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-- -- What can they be doing, brother? said my father.
-- I think, replied my uncle Toby, -- taking, as I told you, his pipe from his mouth, and striking the ashes out of it as he began his sentence; -- -- -I think, replied he, -- it would not be amiss, brother, if we rung the bell.