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touch'd with the pleasantry of heart of the corporal—that he discontinued his dissertation upon gunpowder—and begged the corporal forthwith to go on with his story of the King of Bohemia and his seven castles.
The story of the King of Bohemia and his seven castles, continued.
This unfortunate King of Bohemia, said Trim———Was he unfortunate then? cried my uncle Toby, for he had been so wrapt up in his dissertation upon gun-powder and other military affairs, that tho' he had desired the corporal to go on, yet the many interruptions he had given, dwelt not so strong upon his fancy, as to account for theepithet
