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 Take a full sheet—Trim! said my uncle Toby, making a sign with his pipe at the same time to take a chair and sit down close by him at the table. The Corporal obeyed—placed the paper directly before him—took a pen and dip'd it in the ink.

—She has a thousand virtues, Trim! said my uncle Toby

Am I to set them down, an' please your honour? quoth the Corporal.

—But they must be taken in their ranks, replied my uncle Toby; for of them all, Trim, that which wins me most, and which is a security for all the rest, is the compassionate turn and singu-