My father would often say to _Yorick_, that if any mortal in the whole universe had done such a thing except his brother _Toby_, it would have been looked upon by the world as one of the most refined satires upon the parade and prancing manner in which _Lewis_ XIV. from the beginning of the war, but particularly that very year, had taken the field——But ’tis not my brother _Toby_’s nature, kind soul! my father would add, to insult any one. ——But let us go on. C H A P. LXVI I MUST observe, that although in the first year’s campaign, the word town is often mentioned,—yet there was no town at that time within the polygon; that addition was not made till the summer following the spring in which the bridges and sentry-box were painted, which was the third year of my uncle _Toby_’s campaigns,—when upon his taking _Amberg, Bonn_, and _Rhinberg_, and _Huy_ and _Limbourg_, one after another, a thought came into the corporal’s head, that to talk of taking so many towns, _without one_ TOWN _to shew for it_,—was a very nonsensical way of going to work, and so proposed to my uncle _Toby_, that they should have a little model of a town built for them,—to be run up together of slit deals, and then painted, and clapped within the interior polygon to serve for all. My uncle _Toby_ felt the good of the project instantly, and instantly agreed to it, but with the addition of two singular improvements, of which he was almost as proud as if he had been the original inventor of the project itself. The one was, to have the town built exactly in the style of those of which it was most likely to be the representative:——with grated windows, and the gable ends of the houses, facing the streets, &c. &c.—as those in _Ghent_ and _Bruges_, and the rest of the towns in _Brabant_ and _Flanders._ The other was, not to have the houses run up together, as the corporal proposed, but to have every house independent, to hook on, or off, so as to form into the plan of whatever town they pleased. This was put directly into hand, and many and many a look of mutual congratulation was exchanged between my uncle _Toby_ and the corporal, as the carpenter did the work. ——It answered prodigiously the next summer——the town was a perfect _Proteus_——It was _Landen_, and _Trerebach_, and _Santvliet_, and _Drusen_, and _Hagenau_,—and then it was _Ostend_ and _Menin_, and _Aeth_ and _Dendermond._ ——Surely never did any TOWN act so many parts, since _Sodom_ and _Gomorrah_, as my uncle _Toby_’s town did. In the fourth year, my uncle _Toby_ thinking a town looked foolishly without a church, added a very fine one with a steeple.——_Trim_ was for having bells in it;——my uncle _Toby_ said, the metal had better be cast into cannon.