XXXIX + 

Just as the corporal was humming, to beginвБ†вАФin waddled Dr.¬†Slop.вБ†вАФвАЩTis not twopence matterвБ†вАФthe corporal shall go on in the next chapter, let who will come in.вБ†вЄЇвБ† + 

Well, my good doctor, cried my father sportively, for the transitions of his passions were unaccountably sudden,вБ†вАФand what has this whelp of mine to say to the matter? + 

Had my father been asking after the amputation of the tail of a puppy-dogвБ†вАФhe could not have done it in a more careless air: the system which Dr.¬†Slop had laid down, to treat the accident by, no way allowed of such a mode of enquiry.вБ†вАФHe sat down. + 

Pray, Sir, quoth my uncle Toby, in a manner which could not go unanswered,вБ†вАФin what condition is the boy?вБ†вАФвАЩTwill end in a phimosis, replied Dr.¬†Slop. + 

I am no wiser than I was, quoth my uncle TobyвБ†вАФreturning his pipe into his mouth.вБ†вЄЇвБ†Then let the corporal go on, said my father, with his medical lecture.вБ†вАФThe corporal made a bow to his old friend, Dr.¬†Slop, and then delivered his opinion concerning radical heat and radical moisture, in the following words. + 