When the town, with its works, was finished, my uncle _Toby_ and the corporal began to run their first parallel----not at random, or any how----but from the same points and distances the allies had begun to run theirs; and regulating their approaches and attacks, by the accounts my uncle _Toby_ received from the daily papers, --they went on, during the whole siege, step by step with the allies.

When the town, with its works, was finished, my uncle Toby and the corporal began to run their first parallel from the same points as the allies ran theirs; and following the accounts in the daily papers, they went on, during the whole siege, step by step with the allies.
