The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-10-23

sail on the third day ana was piCAe"
I'D by an English merchant captain
who deemed me crazy when l told olIn
my story. Not until had taken sew
eral head of cattle from my pockets
would he believe me. To my great
grief. one OF the ships rats carried
off one Of my sheep on the way nome
On reaching shore 1 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 10 wander being
still quick within me, ] SET on 10 sea
once more, this time in the Adventure,
bound for Surat.
On this voyage, after great temp
est, we put into a strange bay for wa
ter. Rambling on the shore, / became
separated from my companions ana
fell into the hands of some natives
Of sBrobdingnag, colossal men, OF
whom hardly one was under sixty
English feet In height.
/ was here put on exhibition, ana
nv fame reaching the ears of the king
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, little giri
named Glumdalclitch, nine years OF
age and small for her years, being not
above thirty feet in height.
In the train of their maJesties traT-
eled all over the kingdom. which was
six thousand miles in length by three
TO five thousand in breadth. The cap
itsl city was fifty-four miles in length
by forty-five in breadth, 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 a
goodly building, housing FIVE hundred
horses, noble creatures Of height OF
from fifty-fOur to sixty feet.
OF the LfIIiputians, I 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 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 magnifylng 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 on the little or big
end-which had almost split the Lilli-
putian kingdom in twain-as to that
matter the Brobdingnagians would
have lost little sleep. l judge this
from a comment by the Brobdingna-
gian king on a political matter which
J spoke of in connection with my own
country-England. at is tyranny"
he said, flor 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 l relat-
ed at length her history, which aston
ished him. He protested that 1t
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
l.. 90 h. oil rn6 m aRQ WI
upon the earth 20 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. 1t was upon such a
footing as Ill became the dignity Of
human kind. / wished to be once
more with people Of my own mind;
also 1 longed for a Whit. of that sea
which looked toward my own land. In
response to my entreaties, was taken
to the sea coast. My little nurse
Glumdalclitch being i'll, 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 lay was seized by a
great bird who took # far out to sea
and then let 1t drop, almost at the ex-
act moment that an English ship hap
pened by to pick me up. Thus was
I singuiarly rescued and brought once
more safe to England.
/ 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 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 a SUI
perior race. for no greater reason that
could see than that they had one
eve turned inward and one turned up
ward.
A later voyage took me to the coun-
try Of the YahOos and the Houy-
hnhnms. The Yahoos, being serv!le
to the Houyhnhnms, were
of disgusting habits, and so much
resembled human beings that the
wise and virtuous Houyhnhnms
took me also for a Yahoo even to the
end of my stay with them. a judg-
ment which grieved me much.
The Houyhnhnms. who had the
forms Of horses. had the most sensible
laws Of any creature that ever lived