The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

turned from it with loathing. He then oats, but Gulliver shook his head. The gray now made signs as if asking what it was, then, that Gulliver would eat. A COW happened to be passing and Gull liver pointed to her, making at the same time a motion as of milking.
 Thus was Lemuel Gulliver introduced into the land of the Houyhnhnms to un- dergo his last and most remarkable adventure. He found that he was in a land where the horses were the intelli- gent beings and the rulers and where men were Yahoos-the lowest, most depraved and least intelligent of the brute creation.
 He was taken Into the domestic service of the gray who first discovered him. He Soon found that he was not exactly a servant for the Houyhnhnms woull be waited on only by other horses-the Ya- hoos being reserved for the most labor ious and degrading duties acting rather the part of trained brutes in all that they were allowed to)-but was kept about and treated well, as one might treat a remarkably intel igent ape who showed signs of solving the question of "the miss ing link" by his display of intelligence. He soon learned to speak the language of his master, who took great delight in instructing him. He learned to make q dish from boiled oats, and in other ways found that food suitable for him was not hard to come by.
 
 to regard the entire race of Houyhnhnms increased daily as did his lothing for the vile Yahoos. The Houyhnhnms, of course. would never regard Guliver as anything else than Yahoo, and the trav- eer felt in his secret heart that he was, indeed, of this despsed and degraded race, though he would not admit this to his master.
 One day the Gray asked Gulliver to tell him how he happened to come to the shores of that land. Gulliver told him the story of his last voyage and tried as best he could, to make the Grey understand the nature of ship. "Who made this ship" asked the Grey, and how came 1t that it's management was left to brutes?" T dare proceed no further" replied Gull liver, unless your honor gives me his word that he will not be offended" This promise being given Gulliver said: The ship was made by creatures like myself who, in all countries where I have tray. eed as well as In my own, are the ra- tiona animals-and upon my arrival here I was much surprised to see Houyhnhnms act like rational beings as your honor was to see a Yahoo, as you are pleased to consider me, show signs of intelligence. And have you no Houyhnhnms in your country?' asked the master Grey.
 With some hesitation, and softening the facts as much as he was able, Gulliver told his honor of the condition and the duties of horses in England. The Grey, in great mitigation, asked how Yahoos dared to venture upon the back of a Houyhnhnm. Was not the Houyhnhnm stronger than the Yahoo as well as of superior intelleence? "I suppose" he continued, e"that you are like the other Yahoos of your country" Guliver as- sured his master that he was fair sam pie of his fellow subjects in England.
 'You differ said the Grey, from other Yahoos somewhat. being more ceanly and not altogether deformed. But in point of real advantage you differ for the worse. | Your nails are of no use to either your | fore or hind feet. And as to your fore | feet, I doubt If they might properly be | called so, for I have never seen you walk on them they are too soft to bear the ground. As it Is, you cannot walk with security. for If either of your hind feet slip you must inevitably fall. Now our Yahoos can use their nails and their fore feet to very considerable extent, and though they generally walk as you do, they can go upon all four of their legs if | they choose. Then your whole body needs a fence against the heat and cold while our Yahoos are provided with a cover ing by nature.
 Now every animal in this country nat. urally abhorr a Yahoo. The weak fiet from them and the strong drive then away. So, granting, as you say, that 1T your country the Yahoos are the rationa creatures. l cannot see how it is possible