The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 7/Chapter 10

by Laurence Sterne

CHAP. X.

All which being considered, and that Death moreover might be much nearer me than I imagined—I wish I was at Abbeville, quoth I, were it only to see how they card and spin—so off we set.

^[1]de Montreuil a Nampont - poste et demi

de Nampont a Bernay - - - poste

de Bernay a Nouvion - - - poste

de Nouvion a Abbeville poste

———but the carders and spinners were all gone to bed.

 

1. Vid. Book of French post-roads, page 36. edition of 1762.