Pickle, and in the course of their intimacy conceived an affection
for his nephew Perry, which did not end but with his life. Indeed
it must be owned that Trunnion was not naturally deficient in
the social passions of the soul, which though they were strangely
warped, disguised, and overborne by the circumstance of his
boisterous life and education, did not fail to manifest themselves
occasionally through the whole course of his behaviour.

As all the hopes of propagating his own name had perished, and his
relations lay under the interdiction of his hate, it is no wonder
that through the familiarity and friendly intercourse subsisting
between him and Mr. Gamaliel, he contracted a liking for the boy,
who by this time entered the third year of his age, and was indeed
a very handsome, healthy, and promising child; and what seemed to
ingratiate him still more with his uncle, was a certain oddity of
disposition, for which he had been remarkable even from his cradle.
It is reported of him, that before the first year of his infancy
was elapsed, he used very often, immediately after being dressed,
in the midst of the caresses which were bestowed upon him by his
mother, while she indulged herself in the contemplation of her own
happiness, all of a sudden to alarm her with a fit of shrieks and
cries, which continued with great violence till he was stripped
to the skin with the utmost expedition by order of his affrighted
parent, who thought his tender body was tortured by the misapplication
of some unlucky pill; and when he had given them all this disturbance
and unnecessary trouble, he would he sprawling and laughing in their
faces, as if he ridiculed the impertinence of their concern. Nay,
it is affirmed, that one day, when an old woman who attended in
the nursery had by stealth conveyed a bottle of cordial waters to
her mouth, he pulled his nurse by the sleeve, by a slight glance