The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-31
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
BY DEAN SWIFT
Condensation by James 3. Connolly

that they were people without bleun-
1sh in their persons, and the Brob-
d1ngnag1ans course beyond descrtp-
ton; but later reflection induces me
think that the Lilliputians had blem-
ishes proportionate to their size, the
same being too tiny for me to esti-
mate; and that possibly the Brob-
dingnagians appeared more vulgar
than they truly were, their colossal
| proportions magnifying every defect.
In some matters these large people
were least larger-minded. Thus,
In the matter of whether it was proper
| to break an egg on the little or big
| end-which had almost split the Lilu-
| putian kingdom in twain-as to that
matter the Brobdingnagians would
| have lost little sleep. Judge this
| from comment by the Brobdingna-
giaD King on political matter which
,, l spoke of in connection with my own
country-England. 1T is tyranny" he
said, "for a government to require
those who held differing opinions to
change or not to change them"
His Majesty was much interested
to hear Of England; whereat related
at length her history, which astonish.
ed him. He protested that it seemed
no more than a sequence Of conspira-
cies, murders, revolutions, Danish
ments, the worst effects that avarice,
faction, hypocrisy, hatred, lust. malice
and ambition could produce. What
pernicious race of odious vermin
to be allowed to crawl upon the
earth!" he said; which injurious judy
ment of my noble and beloved country
| panied me exceedingly.
Now while I had become favorite
Of a great nation, it was upon such
footing at i'll became the dignity
of human kind. I wished to be once
more with people of my own mind;
also I longed for a Whit of that sea
whlhc looked toward my own land.
In response to my entreaties, was
taken to the sea-coast. My little nurse
! Glumdalclitch being Ill, I was put in
chare of a page; who left me alone on
the shore while he sought for birds
eggs. While thus alone, the travelling
cabinet in which l lay was seized
by a great bird who took if far out to
sea and TIM let it drop, almost at
| the aXact moment that an English
ship happened by to pick me up. Thus
was I singularly rescued and brought
once more safe to England.
| I made other voyages and had
divers adventures, a most singular
one being that of my rescue from
desert continent by the people of an
island which few in the air, the same
being made to rise and fall by means
of an immense loadstone. The people
of the flying island held themselves
| as superior race, for no greater rea-
son that 1 could see than that they
! had one eye turned inward and one
! turned upward.
| A later vayage took me to the coun-
! try of the Yahoos and the Houyhn-
hnms. These Yahoos, being servile
! attendants to the Houyhnhnms, were
of disgusting habits, and so much
! resemwled human beings that the wise
and virtuous Houyhnhnms took me al
so for a Yahoo even to the end Of my
stay with them. a judgment which
grieved me much.
The Houghnhnms, who had the
forms of horses, had the most SEN
sible laws of any creature that ! ever
lived with. Their adherence of many
of our human habits was SO deep that
! l came in time to have a contempt
for my own species and wished that /,
too, were a Houyhnhnhnm and be al
lowed to remain with them; but they
banished me from their kingdom as
one VINO might SET up d leduer VI lue
Yahoos and so sometime give them
trouble. They allowed me to build
and provision boat; and so padded
off and in time reached England,
where my wife and children were very
glad to see me.
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