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 —It answered prodigiously the next summer—the town was a perfect Proteus—It was Landen, and Trereback, and Santvliet, and Drusen, and Hagenau,—and then it was Ostend and Menin, and Aeth and Dendermond.

—Surely never did any act so many parts, since Sodom and Gomorrah, 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 said, the mettle had better be cast into cannon.

This led the way the next campaign for half a dozen brass field pieces,—to be