You might have spared your servant the trouble, quoth Dr. _Slop_ (as the fellow is lame) of going for _Stevinus's_ account of it, because in my return from _Leyden_ thro' the _Hague_, I walked as far as _Schevling_, which is two long miles, on purpose to take a view of it.

'You might have spared your servant the trouble of going for Stevinus's account of it,' quoth Dr. Slop, 'because in my return from Leyden through the Hague, I walked as far as Schevling, which is two long miles, to view it.'
