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Though my father was a good natural philosopher, -- yet he was something of a moral philosopher too; for which reason, when his tobacco-pipe snapp'd short in the middle, -- he had nothing to do, as such, but to have taken hold of the two pieces, and thrown them gently upon the back of the fire.
-- -- -He did no such thing; -- -- -he threw them with all the violence in the world; -- and, to give the action still more emphasis, -- he started upon both his legs to do it.