out of his hands, which Louisa took care of.

I had now, through more than one rent, discovered and felt his thighs,
the skin of which seemed the smoother and fairer for the coarseness, and
even the dirt of his dress, as the teeth of negroes seem the whiter for
the surrounded black; and poor indeed of habit, poor of understanding,
he was, however, abundantly rich in personal treasures, such as flesh,
firm, plump, and replete with the juices of youth, and robust well-knit
limbs. My fingers too had now got within reach of the true, the genuine
sensitive plant, which, instead of shrinking from the touch, joys to
meet it, and swells and vegetates under it: mine pleasingly informed me
that matters were so ripe for the discovery we meditated, that they were
too mighty for the confinement they were ready to break. A waistband
that I unskewered, and a rag of a shirt that I removed, and which could
not have covered a quarter of it, revealed the whole of the idiot's
standard of distinction, erect, in full pride and display: but such a
one! it was positively of so tremendous a size, that prepared as we were
to see something extraordinary, it still, out of measure, surpassed our
expectation, and astonished even me, who had not been used to trade in
trifles. In fine, it might have answered very well the making a skew of;
its enormous head seemed, in hue and size, not unlike a common sheep's
heart; then you might have trolled dice securely along the broad back
of the body of it; the length of it too was prodigious; then the rich
appendage of the treasure-bag beneath, large in proportion, gathered
and crisped up round in shallow furrows, helped to fill the eye, and
complete the proof of his being a natural, not quite in vain; since it
was full manifest that he inherited, and largely too, the prerogative of
majesty which distinguishes that otherwise most unfortunate condition,
and gave rise to the vulgar saying "That a fool's bauble is a lady's
playfellow." Not wholly without reason: for, generally speaking, it is
in love as it is in war, where the longest weapon carries it. Nature,
in short, had done so much for him in those parts, that she perhaps held
herself acquitted in doing so little for his head.

For my part, who had sincerely no intention to push the joke further
than simply satisfying my curiosity with the sight of it alone, I was
content, in spite of the temptation that stared me in the face, with
having raised a May-pole f