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

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whose duty II was 10 have the care -
reIislon and those who instruct tha
people therein. They were searched
aff' sought cat through the whole ma
uoh hy the prince and his wisest coun-
cIiiorS among such OF the nriaStho,S
IS were most distinguished py the
Sahcuty Q. their lives and the aeDrn
Ct their education.
i He told how the other hoSv %
armament called the House or Com
mons. consisted of gentlemen picked
aGC cUlied by the people themselves
icr their great abilities and love OF
country. He mentioned the venerable
ssses who formed the courts Of instica
ana reecounted the great wars which
BrEaln had waged with success AGAINST
foreign foes, finishing with a brief his
torlcal sketch of England for the past
hundred Years.
When he had finished the king ask
ed methods We're used 10 Guilt
Vate the minds Of the Young nobility
so that they might be worthy of the,-
position. in what occupations and
sports they spent the early mart of
their lives; did they ever gamble or
were ever given to proficiency? What
were the qualifications for the creation
or new lords did the favor of a
court lady, politics or money ever en-
ter into 1t? How great was the legal
knoVtedEe OF these lords that thew
we're entitled to form the court Of last
resort. And were the bishops ever
created such because they had been
to some great lord whose
ideas they followed. or had been slav-
ish com pliers with the times when they
were priests? What arts were used in
eieGting the Commons-did money or
the pressure brought to bear by some
PARTY leader ever secure an election?
And so he went on asking embarrass-
Ing 0fS0tlOHS OF n0HY Cl3fiyar owl
ended up by a severe criticism of the
manner in which England had quar-
relied and fought with her netghbors.
TN short, my little friend" said he,
you have made a most able panegyric
upon your country You have clearly
proved that ignorance id!sness and
vice are the proper ingredients for
qualifying a legislator, that laws are
best interpreted and explained by
those who have an interest in pervert-
ing, eluding and c~onfounding them.
observe among you some outlines Of
an institution which, originally, might
have been tolerable. but these half
erased and the rest blotted and blur
red by c~orruptions 1t does not ap-
pear that one perfection is required
for the attainment of any one sta
ton among you; much less fhat men
are ennobled on account of their vir-
tues; that priests are advanced because
of their piety or learning; soldiers by
their ndu or valor; judges for
their integrity: senator's for their love
of country or councillors for their wis
dom.
LAS for you yourself, YOU have spent
50 much of your life in travel that I
hope that you have escaped many of
the vices OF vour country. But from
what I have gathered from your rela-
ton and the answers [ have Wrung
from you l cannot but conclude the
bulk of your natives to be the most
pernicious race Of little, odious vermin
that nature ever suffered to crawl upon
the surface of the earth" Respect for
the kingly office, as we'll as the size of
His Majesty, prevented CULVER from
~resenting such outrageous language as
he otherwise would.
Life at court, even, was not without
its peril for CULVER. Once a monkey
caught him and carried him to the
ridgepole Of one of the largest build
ing, whence he was rescued with
difficulty; and once he had a narrow
escape from a hen who wished 10 eat
him in mistake for some insect. But
his stay in Brobdingnag, although he
did not know 1t. was drawing to q
close. Glunda1clitch having been ad-
vised by her physician TO take the sea
air, she went to a town near the coast,
taking CULVER with her. One day a
page took him in his travelling box TO
the shore and left him for a while
to search for big birds eggs.
A huge eagle sWooped down, took
the strap of the box in it's beak and
few away with it. Being attacked by
two other eagles, the bird let the box
fall into the water a long distance out
at sea, where a passing ship sighted il
as 1t foated about and the captain or-
dered hat a purchase be rugged and
the strange structure heaVed on board.
captain and all the crew We're
allied with amazen1e EN- when they be-
held CULVER inside the box, and for
some time thought him crazy, he
talked in uch a TRANCE manner. act
and speaking as il he were still
n the hand of the giants, where, in
TACT. he had spent two years Fhe
captain and the members Of the crew
oOked so small to CULVER that at
first he vas afraid Of stepping on
hem accidentally. and would call for
hem to look out. He spoke SO loud
hat the captain asked him If all the
in the land he came from were