--I've look'd him, added the corporal, an hundred times in the face, --and know what he is. --He's nothing, _Obadiah_, at all in the field. --But he's very frightful in a house, quoth _Obadiah_. ----I never mind it myself, said _Jonathan_, upon a coach-box. --It must, in my opinion, be most natural in bed, replied _Susannah_. --And could I escape him by creeping into the worst calf's skin that ever was made into a knapsack, I would do it there--said _Trim_--but that is nature.

I've looked him in the face a hundred times, and know what he is. He's nothing, Obadiah, on the battlefield.'
'But he's very frightful in a house,' quoth Obadiah.
'I never mind it in a coach-box,' said Jonathan.
'It must, in my opinion, be most natural in bed,' said Susannah.
'And if I could escape him there, I would,' said Trim, - 'but that is nature.'
