--Reach me, _Trim_, that book from off the scrutoir: ----it has oft-times been in my mind, continued my father, to have read it over both to you, _Yorick_, and to my brother _Toby_, and I think it a little unfriendly in myself, in not having done it long ago: ----shall we have a short chapter or two now, --and a chapter or two hereafter, as occasions serve; and so on, till we get through the whole? 
'I have not advanced in the Tristra-paedia, but - reach me, Trim, the book from off the desk - it has oft-times been in my mind to read it over to you, Yorick, and to my brother Toby: - shall we have a short chapter or two now, and more later on, till we get through the whole?'
