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first gravely,———"as how they were made—with what meats, herbs and spices"—Then a little gayly—as, "With what skins—and if they never burst—Whether the largest were not the best"———and so on—taking care only as he went along, to season what he had to say upon sausages, rather under, than over;—that he might have room to act in———
It was owing to the neglect of that very precaution, said my uncle Toby, laying his hand upon Trim's shoulder, That Count de la Motte lost the battle of Wynendale: he pressed too speedily into the wood; which if he had not done, Lisle had not fallen into our hands, not Ghent and Bruges, which both followedher
