The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 6/Chapter 4

by Laurence Sterne

CHAP. IV.

Doctor Slop and Susannah filed cross-bills against each other int he parlour; which done, as the cataplasm had failed, they retired into the kitchen to prepare a fomentation for me;—and whilst that was doing, my father determined the point as you will read.