The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16

her neghbofs.
"In short, my little friend" said he.
you have made most able panegyrio
upon your country. You have clearly
proved that ignorance. idleness and vicf
are the proper ingredients for qualifying
legislator, that laws arc best inter-
preted and explained by those who have
an interest in perverting, eluding and con-
founding them. [ observe among you
some outlines of an institution which.
originally, might have been tolerable; but
these half erased and the rest blotted ana
blurred by corruptions It does not APP
pear that one perfection IS required for
the attainment of any one station among
you; much less that men are ennobled on
account of their virtues, that priests are
advanced because of their piety or learn
ing: soldiers by their conduct or valor;
judges for their integrity; senator's for
their love of country or councillors for
! their wisdom.
LAS for you yourself you have spent so
much of your life in travel that hope
that you have escaped many of the vices
of your country. But from what have
gathered from your relation and the an
swers l have wrung from you 1 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 Gull
liver from resenting such outrageous IAN
guage 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 RIDGE
pole of one of the largest buildings.
whence he was rescued with difficulty;
and once he had narrow escape from q
| hen who wished to eat him in mistake for
some insect. But his stay In Brobdins-
nag, although he did not know it. was
drawing to close. Grandchildren having
been advised 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 q
while to search for big birds eggs.
A huge eagle swooped down, took tina
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! away with 1t. 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 II
Hcated about and the captain ordered
that purchase be rugged and the strange
structure heaved on board The car,tain
ana all the crew were filled with amaze
| hheht When they beheld Guliver inside
the box, and for some time thought him
Crazy ne talked In such a strange man.
ner' acting and speaking as IL he wers
sui In the land of the giants where In
iact he had spent two years. The can
tam and the members of the crew looked
SO small to CULVER that at first he was
AFRAID OF stepping on them accidentaJ,v.
and would call for them to look ont. He
spoke so loud that the captain asked him
all 'he people In the land he came
from were deaf. and. committed a thou
sahd absurdfties before he could readiust
himself to his old scale of life He baa
oeen Obliged to look I'D so long that h.
went around with his head thrown bsc&
in most comical manner.
But gradually the captain cana 70 h.-
leVe in his marvellous story. ana a,
length DR.. CULVER found himsa1f s...,..
at nome In old England, where his de-
hehted family welcomed him with rreat
Joy and begged OF him that he Womb 90
no more a-roving as long as he lived.
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