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 consummation, the baptizing all the  at once, slap-dash, by injection, would not be a shorter and safer cut still; on condition, as above, That if the  do well and come safe into the world after this, that each and every of them shall be baptized again (sous condition.)—And provided, in the second place, That the thing can be done, which Mr. Shandy apprehends it may, par le moyen d'une petite canulle, and, sans faire aucune tort a le pere.

I wonder what's all that noise, and, running backwards and forwards for, above stairs, quoth my father, addressing himself, after an hour and a half's silence, to my uncle Toby,—who