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 us, added my father, a single minute:"—No matter, if it be ten minutes, quoth my mother.

—It will not detain us half a one; said my father.

The Corporal was just then setting in with the story of his brother Tom and the Jew's widow: the story went on—and on—it had episodes in it—it came back, and went on—and on again; there was no end of it—the reader found it very long

—G— help my father! he pish'd fifty times at every new attitude, and gave the corporal's stick, with all its flourishings and danglings, to as many devils as chose to accept of them.