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

gray, tried me with another word which was not so easy-"Houyhnhnm
 After two or three trials, however, got the word fairly we'll and both horses seemed amazed at my capacity. The Grey made me signs that I was to walk be- fore him, and deemng it prudent to com ply, I was thus taken to house three miles away, made of brick and timber and wattled across. The roof was low and covered with straw. The Grey made me a sign that I should go in first, and did so. I entered a large room with smooth clay floor and a rack and a man. ger extending the whole length of the side. There were three nags and two mares there, not eating, but some of them sitting down upon their hams-which I much wondered to see But I wondered more to see the others employed in do- mestic work These seemed but ordinary cattle, though very deft in doing things. handling articles between their hoofs and pasterns."
 People who can thus train brutes," | thought Gulliver, must exceed in wisdom all the peoples of the earth" The Grey horse now came In and seemed to be telling his household the story of his find ing of this remarkable Yahoo. Beyond the room first entersd were three others, op- posite to each other In the manner of a vista. The Grey took Gu,liver into the second room and signed to him to attend there Before going into the third room the Grey neighed three times and Gull- yer waited to hear an answer in a human voice. But no such answer came-only an answering neigh.
 Some great man evidently owned the house. because there was so much cer- emory in obtaining admittance to his inner rooms. But was it not astound- ing that he should be served entirely by horses? The Grey, having gone into the third room, soon came out again and signed for Gulliver to enter. Tn this third room was very comedy mare, together with colt and a foal, sitting upon their launches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made and per fectly neat and clean. The mare arose and. going close up to Gulliver. ex- amined him critically. Then, with a contemptuous expression, she turned 10 the Grey and said something in which the word "Yahoo' was several times repeated emphatically:
 The Grey now led GuIliver out into sort of court, on one side of which was another long building al some dis tdnce from the house. They entered this building anI Gulliver was filled | lttrif
 tostable creatures which he had seen upon his first landing were there, and it was evident that they were the Yahoos whom the castaway had heard men, toned so many times and that the gray | thought Gulliver was one of the same | species The Yahoos were feeding upon | roots and the flesh of some animals 1 which Gulliver afterward found to be that of asses and dogs-and now and then a COW, dead by accident or dis ease They were all tied by the neck with strong withes fastened to a be am They held their food between their claws and tore if with their teeth
 A sorrel nag, one of the servants, was ordered 10 unfasten one of the brutes and lead him into the courtyard The l and their persons and faces carefully compared by the master and the ser want "Yahool Yahoo," they both said after the examination. Poor Gulliver saw with horror that this animal was, indeed, like him, differing only in those facial features which are as much dif- ferent among various races as was the difference between the face of the Yahoo and Guliver. As Gulliver had on clothes, however, and shoes and stockings there was q difference be- tween him and the Yahoo which seemed to puzzle the gray and his servant. Clothing. of course, they had never seen and supposed the covering to be a part of his body
 The sorrel mare offered Gulliver a root. The new variety of Yahoo took if, smelt it and handed it back politely Then the sorrel brought out of tho Yahoo's kennel a piece of ass' flesh but 1t smelt so offensive that Gulliver