Allowing them, an' please your honour, three half-pence a day out of my pay, when they grow old. --And didst thou do that, _Trim?_ said _Yorick_. --He did indeed, replied my uncle _Toby_. --Then, _Trim_, said _Yorick_, springing out of his chair, and taking the corporal by the hand, thou art the best commentator upon that part of the _Decalogue_; and I honour thee more for it, corporal _Trim_, than if thou hadst had a hand in the _Talmud_ itself.
'Allowing them, an' please your honour, three half-pence a day out of my pay, when they grow old.'
'And didst thou do that, Trim?' said Yorick.
'He did indeed,' replied my uncle Toby.
'Then, Trim,' said Yorick, springing out of his chair, and shaking the corporal's hand, 'thou art the best commentator upon that commandment; and I honour thee more for it, corporal Trim, than if thou hadst had a hand in the Talmud itself.'