The Penn's Grove record., 1920-11-26

off one of my sheep on the way home
On reaching shore / learned that m.
uncle John had died and left me hi
near Epping, and the same be
ing sufficient to keep my family from
and the lust to wander beint
still quick within me, l set off to sea
once more. this time in the Adventure
bound for Surat.
On this voyage, after a great temp
est, we put into a strange bay for wa
ter. Rambling on the shore, l became
separated from my companions and
into the hands of some natives
of Brobdingnag, colossal men, OF
whom hardly one was under sixty
English feet in height.
/ was here put on exhibition, ant
my fame reaching the ears of the kin
and queen, they commanded my pres
ence at court; and thither / was
brought, In the charge of the daugh-
ter Of one of my captors, a little girl
named Glumdalclitch, nine years of
g and small for her years, being not
above thirty feet In height.
In the train of their majesties l trav.
eled all over the kingdom, which was
six thousand miles In length by three
to five thousand in breadth. The cap
Ital city was f~fty-four miles in length
BY forty-fve in breadth, a wonderful
city where the kings palace was
seven miles around and the chief room
therein two hundred and forty feet
high, and broad and long in proper,
ton, The kings stable was also q
goodly building, housing five hundre
horses. noble creatures Of a height OF
from ffty-four to sixty feet.
OF the Lilliputians, / used to say
that they were people without a blem-
ish in their persons, and the Brob-
dingnagians coarse beyond descrip
ton; but later reflection induces me
to think that the ~Lilliputians had
blemishes proportionate to heir size.
the same being too tiny for me to es-
innate; 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 at least larger-minded. Thus, in
the matter of whether ii was proper
to break an egg on the little or big
end-which had almost split the Lhii-
putian kingdom in twain-as to that
matter the Brobdingnagians wontd
have lost little sleep. I judge this
from a comment by the Brobdingna.
gian king on a political matter which
spoke of in connection with my OWL
country-England. at is tyranny"
he said, 'for a government to require
those who held differing opinions 10
change or not to change them"
His majesty was much interested
to hear of England; whereat l relat-
ed at length her history, which aston
ished him. He protested that it
seemed no r4ore than a sequence of
conspiracfes, murders, revolutions,
b%anishments, the worst effects that
avarice, faction, hypocrisy, hatred.
lust, malice and ambition could pro-
duce. "What a pernicious race of
odious vermin to be allowed to crawl
upon the earth :" he said; which in
furious judgment of my noble and be-
loved country panied me exceedingly.
Now while / had become a favorite
of a great nation, it was upon such a
footing as i'll became the dignity OF
human kind. I wished to be once
more with people of my WI mind;
also I longed for a Whit Of that sea
which looked toward my land. In
response to my e~ntreaties, / was taken
TO the sea coast. My little nurse
Glumdalclitch being i'll, I was put in
charge of a page; who left me alone
on the shore while he sought for birds
eggs, While thus alone, the travelling
cabinet in which I lay was seized by a
great bird who took it far out to sea
and then let it drop, almost at the ex-
act moment that an English ship hap
pened by to pick me up. Thu was
I singularly rescued and brought ono
more safe to England.
I made other voyages and had div
ers adventures, a most singular one
being that of my rescue from a desert
continent by the people of an island
which flew 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 al a S
perior race, for no greater reason that
could see than that they had one
aye turned inward and n turned up
ward.
A later voyage tool me to the coun-
try of the Yahoos and the Houy-
hnhnms. The Yahscs, being serv.le
attendants to the Fouyhnhnms, were
of disgusting habits, and so much
resembled human beings that the
wise and virtIoas HouyhnhnmS
took me also for a Yahoo even to the
end Of my stay W b them, a judg-
meat which grievea me much.
The Houyhnhnms. who had the
forms of horses, had the most sensih.e
laws of any creature that 1 ever lived