and during the winter of the fame year, my uncle Toby, inftead of a new fuit of cloaths, which he always had at Christmas, treated himself with a handfome fentry-box, to ftand at the corner of the bowling-green, betwixt which point and the foot of the glacis, there was left a little kind of an efplanade for him and the corporal to confer and hold councils of war upon.

rain.

The fentry-box was in case of

All these were painted white three times over the enfuing fpring, which enabled my uncle Toby to take the field with great splendour.

My father would often fay to Yorick, that if any mortal in the whole univerfe

had

had done fuch a thing, except his brother Toby, it would have been looked upon by the world as one of the most refined fatyrs upon the parade and prancing manner, in which Lewis XIV. from the beginning of the war, but particularly that very year, had taken the field But 'tis not my brother Toby's nature, kind foul! my father would add, to infult any one.

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But let us go on.

CHA P. XXIII.

Muft obferve, 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 fummer following the fpring in which the bridges and fentry-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 fo many towns, without one TOWN to fhow for it, was a very nonfenfical 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 flit deals, and then painted, and clapped within the interior polygon to ferve for all.

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

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The one was to have the town built exactly in the ftile of those, of which it was most likely to be the reprefentative:

with grated windows, and the gable ends of the houses, facing the streets, &c. &c.-as thofe in Ghent and Bruges, and the rest of the towns in -Brabant and Flanders.

The other was, not to have the houses run up together, as the corporal propofed, but to have every house independant, to hook on, or off, fo as form into the plan of whatever town they pleafed. This was put directly into hand, and many and many a look of mutual congratulation was exchanged between my uncle Toby and the corpo

ral, as the carpenter did the work.

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It answered prodigiously the next fummer the town was a perfect Proteus It was Landen, and Trerebach, and Santvliet, and Drufen, and Hagenau, —and then it was Oftend and Menin, and Aeth and Dendermond.

-Surely never did any Town act

fo many parts, fince Sodom and Gomorrab, as my uncle Toby's town did.

In the fourth year, my uncle Toby thinking a town looked foolishly without a church, added a very fine one with a steeple.Trim was for having bells in it;my uncle Toby faid, the mettle had better be cast into cannon.

This led the way the next campaign for half a dozen brafs field pieces,-to be H 2

planted