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Slop was in the kitchen, and busy in making a bridge my uncle Toby the affair of the jack-boots having just then raised a train of military ideas in his brain took it instantly for granted that Dr. Slop was making a model of the marquis d'Hopital's bridge. 'tis very obliging in him, quoth my uncle Toby; pray give my humble service to Dr. Slop, Trim, and tell him I thank him heartily.
For a whole week after he was determined in his mind to have one of that particular construction which is made to draw back horizontally, to hinder a passage; and to thrust forwards again to gain a passage of which sorts your worship might have seen three famous ones at Spires before its destruction and one now at Brisac, if I mistake not; but my father advising my uncle Toby, with great earnestness, to have nothing more to do with thrusting bridges and my uncle foreseeing moreover that it would but perpetuate the memory of the Corporal's misfortune he changed his mind for that of the marquis d'Hopital's invention, which the younger Bernouilli has so well and learnedly described, as your worships may see Act.
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