The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-18

anrbia. the king burst out
asiins and asked him whethsr -
WIS d Wing CT a Torv 49,
- Hifs 20 one of his ministers -
Na.ted behInd the roya, chair r;.h
49, Staii nearly as long as the main
ed: remark
HoW conteptibIe a thing is human
s,ah "hich can be mimicked by
80 ~ insects as this, And vet eare
Soy THESE creatures have their titlaS ~
oHtihctlon and honor; they con+r;Ta
ittie burrows which they call houses
ana cleles, they make a figure in ,sras,
ana e~qulppage;; they love, thev fyb.
-. oisPute, they cheat, they be-
eias Ana IN this vein did the Gov
ernor continue on while cn4i;Ior.
color went and came with indianation
20 near his nobl country the mjstrax,
" arts and arms, the sco;1r1e of
france, the arbitre.s OF Europe tho
seat OF virtue, piety and honor and
rum; the pride n envy of the
Soiiu 50 contemptuou.ly treated. but
no. eefh8 IN a condition TO resent IN
lures, Gulllver soon began to douh.
II he were injured at all. and hayino
peen 50 long with these people as 70
oecoHe accustomed to their size he
mad no doubt that if he had suddenly
seeh a company Of English lords and
ladies in the fner acting Their 81
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manner be would have laughed q.
them as heartily as the king aid at
him.
Nothing angered and mortified Gui-
IVer as much as tho queen. dwarf,
VINE, Eeing of the lowest stature ever
over thirty feet high. If
ne WAS that-hecarne especially inso-
rent 70 one so much smaller than
himself and seldom failed to insult
CULVER on aceount OF his nttlencs..
CULVER could only retort by Calling
the dwarf "brother' Offering to wres-
tie with him and tnduling in such
other repartee as is usual III the
mouth OF court pages. One day the
dwarf being especially nettled at some
thing that CULVER had said. grabbed
him UP and dropped him into Il cream
Jug where he would have been
smothered and drowned had not
Giurdalcftch rushed to his rescue.
The dwarf was soundly whipped and
soon after sent from court, greatly to
G~ull1VerS relief. Yet the dwarf did
but exenlplify that detestabIe phase
Of human nature which makes one de-
sl1sed and looked down upon to ind
a satisfaction in looking down upon
aud treating with contempt any me
whom be can find lower or weaker
tpan himself.
CULVER, however, did not spend al
u IiS TINE III Lie roy d4 pdldCS, DIl
made Journeys about the country
with the court, Granddaughter attend
ing him and being safe in a travelling
box especially made for the
Sometimes Granddaughter carried his
box in her lap in a coach and some
times, when CULVER had a mind to
view the country, a trusty groom
IN a horse. had the box Sc
curely STRAPPED to him and resting be
fore him on the saddle. The country
IS d peninsula entirely cut off from the
mainland by a range of lofty and i'm
passable VOLCANOES. There is not ore
seacoast in the land. and the country
Is strewn thick with sharp-pointed
rocks, so that the country is cut Off
from all with the rest OF
the world. The kingdom is well IN
hab1ted, for t contains fifty-one cities
and near q hundred walled towns. To
satisfy the curious, it may be well 20
describe h metropolist of Lorbrul-
grud.
The city stands in almost two equal
parts upon the river which huns
through it, and contains about 500, 900
inhabitants. The kings palace is no
regular ediftce, but q group of build
lnSs about seven miles around The
chief roorns are mostly $40 feet high
and broad and long in proportion
CULVER was rather disappointed III
S0A1A3 ~ 0A'A hA'-AA
IS attached to it, the tower being reck-
oned the highest in the Kingdom. He
found the boasted tower to be only g.
00e feet high. But he was forced TO
acknowledge that 1t made up IN beauty
and strength what it lacked in height,
the walls being 100 feet thick, Of hewn
forty feet square. The tower
was adorned on all sides with statues
of gods and ernperors cut in in marble
and larger than life. He measured a
finger which had fallen from one Of
these statues and found it to be exact
actly four feet and one inch in length.
Granddaughter wrapped it up in her
handkerchief and carried 1t home to
place among her other trinkets.
one day when the King as usual,
was asking CULVER about his native
country the traveller entered into a
minute description of the constitution
and government of the United King
dom. He described the Parliament,
partly made up OF an illlstrious body
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