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 of the two he pleases, or finds most convenient for hm.—This threw the advantage of the argument quite on my uncle Toby's side.—"Good God!" cried my uncle Toby, "are children brought into the world with a squirt?"

PON my honour, Sir, you have tore every bit of the skin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby,—and you have crush'd all my knuckles into the bargain with them, to a jelly. 'Tis your own fault, said Dr. Slop,—you should have clinch'd your two fists together into the form of a child's head, as I told you, and sat firm.—I did so, answered my uncle Toby.—Then the points of my forceps have not been suffi-