----Then, _Yorick_, replied my uncle _Toby_, you and I will lead the way abreast, ----and do you, corporal, follow a few paces behind us. ----And _Susannah_, an' please your honour, said _Trim_, shall be put in the rear. ----'Twas an excellent disposition, --and in this order, without either drums beating, or colours flying, they marched slowly from my uncle _Toby's_ house to _Shandy-hall_.
----I wish, said _Trim_, as they entered the door, --instead of the sash weights, I had cut off the church spout, as I once thought to have done. --You have cut off spouts enow, replied _Yorick_.----
'Then, Yorick,' replied my uncle, 'you and I will lead the way, and you, corporal, follow a few paces behind us.'
'And Susannah, an' please your honour,' said Trim, 'shall be put in the rear.'
In this order, without either drums beating, or colours flying, they marched slowly from my uncle Toby's house to Shandy-Hall.
'I wish,' said Trim, as they entered, 'instead of the sash weights, I had cut off the church spout, as I once thought to have done.'
- 'You have cut off spouts enough,' replied Yorick.
Book 5 - Chapter 23