----No; said the corporal to himself, I'll do it before his honour rises to-morrow morning; so taking his spade out of the wheel-barrow again, with a little earth in it, as if to level something at the foot of the glacis----but with a real intent to approach nearer to his master, in order to divert him----he loosen'd a sod or two----pared their edges with his spade, and having given them a gentle blow or two with the back of it, he sat himself down close by my uncle _Toby's_ feet, and began as follows.
'No,' said the corporal to himself. 'I'll do it before his honour rises to-morrow morning.' So, taking his spade out of the wheel-barrow again, in order to divert his master, he loosened a sod or two, and having given them a gentle blow with the back of the spade, he sat down close by my uncle Toby's feet, and began as follows.