——But may not a cow be barren? replied my father, turning to Doctor Slop.
It never happens: said Dr. Slop, but the man’s wife may have come before her time naturally enough——Prithee has the child hair upon his head?—added Dr. Slop———
——It is as hairy as I am; said Obadiah.——Obadiah had not been shaved for three weeks——Wheu - - u - - - - u - - - - - - - - cried my father; beginning the sentence with an exclamatory whistle——and so, brother Toby, this poor Bull of mine, who is as good a Bull as ever p—ss’d, and might have done for Europa herself in purer times——had he but two legs less, might have been driven into Doctors Commons and lost his character——which to a Town Bull, brother Toby, is the very same thing as his life———
L—d! said my mother, what is all this story about?——
A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick——And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard.
[1.] He lost his hand at the battle of Lepanto.
[2.] This must be a mistake in Mr. Shandy; for Graaf wrote upon the pancreatick juice, and the parts of generation.
[Detailed Contents]
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| Book | Page | |
| [Introduction] (1912) | [vii] | |
| [Bibliography] | [xxvi] | |
| [Note on Text] | [xxvii] | |
| I | [Title Page] | [1] |
| [Dedication] “to Mr. Pitt” | [2] | |
| [main text begins] | [3] | |
| [baptism before birth] | [44] | |
| II | [Book II] | [59] |
| [The Sermon] | [89] | |
| III | [Book III] | [113] |
| [Excommunicatio] (Latin and English on facing pages) | [122] | |
| [The Author’s Preface] (between chaps. XX and XXI) | [138] | |
| IV | [Book IV] | [176] |
| [Slawkenbergii Fabella] (Latin and English on facing pages) | [176] | |
| [My Father’s Lamentation] | [214] | |
| V | [Book V Title Page] | [249] |
| [Dedication] to Viscount Spencer | [250] | |
| [main text begins] | [251] | |
| [Upon Whiskers] | [252] | |
| VI | [Book VI] | [300] |
| [The Story of Le Fever] | [305]-[312] | |
| [My Uncle Toby’s Apologetical Oration] | [337] | |
| VII | [Book VII] | [349] |
| VIII | [Book VIII] | [395] |
| [The Story of the King of Bohemia and His Seven Castles] | [411]-[416] | |
| IX | [Book IX Title Page] | [439] |
| [Dedication] “to a Great Man” | [440] | |
| [main text begins] | [441] | |
| [Chapter XVIII] (header) | [458] | |
| [Chapter XIX] (header) | [459] | |
| [The Invocation] | [464] | |
| [The Eighteenth Chapter] (content) | [467] | |
| [The Nineteenth Chapter] (content) | [469] |