text:  On this was constructed the waggish story--that one night having fallen into a ditch and calling out in his shrill voice a countryman was coming up to assist him; when Phipps calling out again in his hoarse tone the man exclaimed--"If there are two of you in the ditch you may help each other out!" One of his qualities seems to have been a total insensibility to his own defects; which therefore suffered him to encounter any man and every man whatever might be their superiority