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

think" said he to himself, that I once
 lived in nation of Yahoos and was con-
 tent to call it mine!' His master had
 caused to be built for him a room situated
 about six yards from the house. Guliver
 had plastered the sides and floor with clay
 and covered them with rush mats of h's
 own contrivng. He had beaten hemp
 which there grows wild-and made from 1t
 sort of ticking. This he filled with
 feathers of various sorts of birds which
 he caught with snares made of Yahoo
 hairs.
 The birds were an excellent food as
 well as supplying him with the stuffing
 of his feather bed. He made himself
 two chairs with his knife and, when his clothing was worn out, he made himself a new suit of the skins of rabbits and of
 other little animals which had a pecul-
 larly soft and thin skin. Of these latter
 sort of skins he also made himself very tolerable stockings. He resoled his shoes with wood cut from the trees which he fitted to the still intact uppers, and when these uppers were also worn out he made
 new uppers out of the skins of Yahoos dried in the sun.
 Gulliver enjoyed perfect tranquility of
 mind and health of body. In his memoirs he declares T had no occasion of flat tering, fawning or bribing to procure the favor of any great man or his minion. l did not feel the treachery or inconsistency of friend nor the injuries of secret or l open enemy. I wanted no fance against l fraud or oppression; there was no in- | former to watch my words and actions
 and forge accusations against me. Here were no gibers censurers, backblters pickpockets, lawyers, tedious takers, gamesters, politicians, wits, murderers, virtuosos fops, bullies, drunkards, no ex- pensive wives, no pedants, no lords, fd- dlers, judges or dancing masters. No
 scoundrels raised from the dust because
 of their vices and no nobility thrown into 1t because of their virtues"
 At first Gulliver had not felt for the
 Houyhnhnms that natural awe which the ! Yahoos and all other animals bear to-
 ward them. But it grew upon him by utS IttS llutH SOOHeT lildu no lldSlH
 and was mingled with respectful love
 and gratitude that they should conde- scent to distinguish him from the rest of
 his species.
 1 In the midst of all this happiness. and when he looked upon himself as fairly settled In life, Guliver was one day | summoned before his master. He saw at Onca from, tho cnuptapapca of tha Crav that he was troubled and perplexed Finally he said that at the last meeting of the council some of the members had taken objection to his keeping a Yahoo | in his family more like a Houyhnhnm than a brute animal; that he had been known to converse frequently with this Yahoo-meaning, of course, Gulliver himself-as if he could receive some pleasure or profit from such discourse Such a practice was not agreeable eith- | CT to reason or nature, and had never been heard of before.
 i I, was proposed that he either employ Grlliver like his other Yahoos or com
 nand him to swim, back to the place whence he came. The first of these prop
 ostions was voted down, as it was rear cd that GulnVer, possessinS soi'
 rudiments of reason, might be able tt scduce the other Yahoos into the
 mountains and wooded parts, whence they would come down in hordes bs night and destroy cattle and crops, the | 1ahoo being by nature ravenous ant averse to labor. His honor was being 1 daily D, essed by the Houyhnhnms ol | the neighborhood to carry out the othel | alternative and force Gulliver tt depart from the country. For his par' | he would have been contented to have
 kept Gulliver always in his employ
 for. he had observed that he had curet
 himself of some bad habits and disposi
 lions by endeavoring. as far as his in
 ferior nature would allow, to intimate
 the Houyhnhnms.
 | Gulliver was so overcome by this tha | he fell down in faint. When he hat recovered himself and bewailed his har'
 lot at being obliged to leace such com. try and such people his master saving that he doubted he could swin back to the land whence he came. aske'