The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08


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! carving baskets of provisions which had
: been provided, it afterward appeared, by
the Kings forethought when His Majesty
had first received news of the arrival OF
; this great man mountain upon his
g coast There were shoulders and legs and
: loins which were very well dressed but
were about as big as the wings of an or
binary lark. CULVER ate two or three at
mouthful. They gave him loaves or
bread about as big musket bullets. He
ate all they gave him, while the people
! marveled at his size and at his appetite.
Then they skunk, with great dexterty,
= one of their largest hogsheads, which, the
head being removed CULVER drank off at
a draught- 1t tasted like good Burgundy.
He made sign that he wanted more
and they brought him another hogshead,
which he drank off. He made another
sign for more. but they had no more to
give him When CULVER had performed
, these prodigious feats of eating and
drinking, the people that had fed him
began to shout and dance about upon his
breast and made a }sign that he Should
throw down the EMPTY hogsheads, first
calling out to the PEOPLE upon. fhe ground
to stand from und kr. GlAliver did not
know then the ca, q Of the joy of his
providers But he did later. That wine
was "doped-s<as the modern expression
would be-.
Gulp!Iver was tempted to seize 40 or 90
q of the little people as they scrambled
I over him and dash them to the ground
II but the remembrance of the sting OF their
T little arrows as well as his considering
o that he was now bound by the laws OF
e hospitality to a people who had given
! him food and drink, and also considering
II that. by his gestures of submission, he
e had bound himself to a peaceable course,
II soon drove such thoughts from his head.
n Feeling the influence of the drugged
II liouor, he quietly went to sleep again He
l. silent about eight hours and upon awak-
IS ening found that he was being transport
&c ed, bound in a great machine on wheels,
II which the Emperor had ordered to carry
:" him to the capital city.
The Emperor had several large ma
. chimes fixed on wheels, on which he was
accustomed to transport vast loads SO
>, that his men-of-war, some OF which
:. were nine feet long, and were often
built in the forests, could be transported
~ by these machines to the seashore. The
- largest of these machines, which was
4 seven feet long, had been strengthened
10 and transformed into conveyance for
6 CULVER. 1t had been brought parallel
;, to where he lay, and the great work
f,,+o hta1n no.
~ gum Eighty poles, each foot high,
If We're erected for this purpose, and very
strong cords of the bigness of pack
j., thread were reeved through pulleys fas-
tened to the poles. One end of each OF
IF these cords was attached by hooks to
= numerous bands which had been cast
l. around Gulliver's body. and 900 of the
l. strongest men who could be procured
= hoisted him up, with great labor. so that
1t they could swing him upon the machine.
IL Then fifteen hundred of the Emperor S
e strongest horses were hitched to the
d machine and the procession to the cap
n ital which was about half a mile distant,
n began. They made long march that
S day and rested at night with 500 guards
on either side of the man mountain -
|
1t guards bore torches and one-half stood
e with drawn bows ready to shoot him
e should he try to escape. The march was
$. resumed at sunrise, and they soon came
n near to the city walls outside of which
Is they stopped while the Emperor and his
r court came out in state to view the
e, strange being that had been thrown upon
is the coast of the vast empire of Lili-
1t put-for such was the name of the coun-
l. try ruled over by the puissant monarch
e who now came to receive CULVER. At
IL the place where the carriage stopped
e there was an ancient temple, said to be
l, the biggest in the empire. But 1t had
n been profaned some years before by an
n unnatural murder and had been aban-
4. doned as place of worship. This struc-
n ture was by the Emperor's orders, now
t assigned as a dwelling for the gigantic
e stranger. The great door of the tenn
Is Pile was four feet high and nearly two
1t feet wide SO that CULVER could easily
creep through it and find shelter inside
q of the vast edifice
u But first the Kings smiths brought
eleven chains like those which hang to
: a ladys watch in England and almost
. as large. These they attached to his
: left ankle with thirty padlocks and fast
: ened the other ends Of the chains inside
3 the temple. Having thus secured him,
they loosened him from the machine and
: bade him by signs to consider the tenn
: Pile as his own and to thank the mercy
and munificence of the Emperor. The
mighty monarch now assembled a turret
5 which stood across the highway from
the temple and, surrounded by his gilt
, terng~c chart and great officers of state,
gazed upon CULVER. About a hundred
thousand of the inhabitants of the city
, had come out to see the marvel and
when Gulliver, arose and walked as far
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