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 I hope, Trim, answered my uncle Toby, I love mankind more than either; and as the knowledge of arms tends so apparently to the good and quiet of the worldand particularly that branch of it which we have practised together in our bowling-green, has no object but to shorten the strides of, and intrench the lives and fortunes of the few, from the plunderings of the many—whenever that drum beats in our ears, I trust, Corporal, we shall neither of us want so much humanity and fellow-feeling as to face about and march.

In pronouncing this, my uncle Toby faced about, and march'd firmly as at the head of his company—and the faithful Corporal, shouldering his stick,