The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-22

up by an English merchant captain,
VINO deemed me crazy when I told him
my story. Not until I had taken sew
eral head of cattle from my pockets
would he believe me. To my great
grief, one of the ships rats carried
on one of my sheep on the way home.
On reaching shore learned that my
uncle John had died and left me his
estate near Epping, and the same be-
Ing sufficient to keep my family from
want and the lust to wander being
still quick within me, 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, I became
separated from my companions and
fell 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, and
my fame reaching the ears of the king
and queen, they commanded my pres
ence at court; and thither I was
brought, in the charge of the daugh-
ter of one of my captors, a little girl
named Glumdalclitch, nine years of
age and small for her years, being not
above thirty feet in height
In the train of their majesties I 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 fifty-four miles in length
by forty-five 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
goodly building, housing five hundred
horses, noble creatures of a height of
from ffty-four to sixty feet.
Of the Lilliputians, used to say
that they were people without 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 their 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 it was proper
to break an egg Oh the little or big
end-which had alynost split the LilFA
putian kingdom ia twafn-as to that
matter the neutrality-suspicious. would
have lost little sleep. 1 judge this
from a comment by the Brobdingna-
gian king on a political matter which
spoke of in connection with my own
country-EngIand. at Isl 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 relat-
ed at length her history, which aston
ished him. He protested that it
seemed no more than a sequence of
conspiracies, murders, revolutions,
banishments, 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 I" he said; which in
furious judgment of my noble and be-
loved country panied me exceedingly.
Now while 1 had become a favorite
of 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 own mind;
also I Ionged for a Whit of that sea
which looked toward my own land. In
response to my entreaties, was taken
to the sea coast. Ny little nurse
being i'll, I was put in
charge Of page; who left me alone
on the shore while he sought for birds
eggs. While thus alone, the travelling
cabinet in which lay was seized by
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. Thus was
I singularly rescued and brought once
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 as a SUI
perior race, for no greater reason that
I could see than that they had one
eye turned inward and one turned up
ward.
A later voyage took me to the coun-
try of the Yahoos and the Houy-
lnhnms. The Yahoos, being servile
attendants to the Houyhnhnms, were
Of disgusting habits, and so much