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can repeat every word of it by heart, quoth my uncle Toby.—Pugh! said my father, not caring to be interrupted with Trim's saying his Catechism. He can upon my honour, replied my uncle Toby.—Ask him, Mr. Yorick, any question you please.

—The fifth Commandment, Trim—said Yorick, speaking mildly, and with a gentle nod, as to a modest Catechumen. The corporal stood silent.—You don't ask him right, said my uncle Toby, raising his voice, and giving it rapidly like the word of command;—The fifth cried my uncle Toby.—I must begin with the first, an' please your honour, said the corporal.

—Yorick could not forbear smiling.—Your reverence does not consider, said