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 there is nothing more dishonest in an historian, than the use of one,)—in order to conceive the probability of this error in my uncle Toby aright, I must give you some account of an adventure of Trims, though much against my will. I say much against my will, only because the story, in one sense, is certainly out of its place here; for by right it should come in, either amongst the anecdotes of my uncle Tobys amours with widow Wadman, in which corporal Trim was no mean actor,—or else in the middle of his and my uncle Toby's campaigns on the bowling green,—for it will do very well in either place;—but then if I reserve it for either of those parts of my story,—I ruin the story I'm upon,—and if I tell it here—I anticipate matters, and ruin it there.