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 R should have gone first—But in short, 'tis of such a nature, as my father once told my uncle Toby upon the close of a long dissertation upon the subject—"You can scarce," said he, "combine two ideas together upon it, brother Toby, without an hypallage"—What's that? cried my uncle Toby.

The cart before the horse, replied my father

—And what has he to do there? cried my uncle Toby

Nothing, quoth my father, but to get inor let it alone.

Now widow Wadman, as I told you before, would do neither the one or the other.