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

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possesslons Of literature.
WAS of a Nottinghamshire fam
ily and educated at Cambridge.
Il Likewise was l educated in pfedf
cine, and preferring a ships surgeon
CIV to any preferment ashore, 1T came
about that after several deep-sea voy-
ages I found myself surgeon of that
ship, the Antelope, which was wrecked
in a violent storm on a coast north
west of Van Diemen's Land.
Of all the ships company | alone
escaped to the land. where, in utter
exhaustion, l lay down and fell asleep.
/ awakened to find myself bound hand
n foot. and surrounded by swarms
of the tiniest human creatures. They
brought me food and drink and IN
yeyed me to their capital, where the
king, Of a majesty a full half-inch
taller than any of his subjects, came
with his court to view me.
In time 1 learned that / was in the
kingdom of the Lilliputians. BY them
I was kept a long time in captivity.
Being ultimately satisfied of the harm
lessness of my intent, / also adding
nv word of honor to do them no in
Jury, they released me, and set aside
six professors of education to teach
me their language. For my bodily
-sustenance they allowed me a guam
tity of neat and drink sufficient for
1724 Of their WI people; for so, be-
ing exact in their mathematics, they
estimated the proportions of my bulk
to theirs. Three hundred cooks and
one hundred and twenty walters were
named to dress my meals, two hundred
seamstresses we're apportioned to
make my linen, and three hundred
tailors for my outer clothing.
With my wants thus attended to,
I was DESTROYS to be Of service to
them. Ny first service was not to
damage their people or their property
as I walked abroad, a most likely dan
ger when the men were Of such size
that I could secrete two or three o I
them in one of my coat pockets. In
walking the streets, yer I to step
heavily, there was danger Of my shak-
ing down large buildings; or, by not
having an eye below me, I could cas-
ily tread to death half a dozen Of
their cattle.
One day the king, who was most
friendly to me, came to me in great
trouble. The emperor of the neigh
boring kingdom of Blefuscu had
threatened to lay waste the kingdom
of Lilliputia. The Blefuscuan navy,
consisting of fifty great ships Of war
was even then about to set sail; but
I. by wading and swimming, reached
their chief harbor where they were
vet at anchor. With my pocket knife
I cut the cables of their fifty ships of
war, and then. tying each ship to q
piece of Irvine, 7 drew them after me
10 dry land, and so compelled the
ca%pitulation of Blefuscu.
While this deed redounded to my
glory, 1t also raised me up powerful
enemies. one being the high admiral of
the Lilliputian navy. Had I wished,
I could have crushed them and their
entire kingdom under my boots, but
there was my pledged word not &:
aarm them. So when by secrs; Ia
trigue they had me tried and con-
demned to the loss Of my eyes, there
was nothing left me but escape. ]
went to Blefuscu, where I "a given a
great reception and where they would
have me stay; but I was weary of
kings and princes, and told them that
I desired nothing except that they
would provision for me a boat, which
I had found drifting on the shore, and
allow me to go my way.
They stored the boat with the ar.
casses Of one hundred oxen, three
hundred sheep. with cows, bulls, and
a. much ready-dressed meat as four
hundred cooks could provide. Being