The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-10-22

thus protected against famine. I se,
sail on the third day and was picked
up by an English merchant captain
who deemed me crazy when I told him
my story. Not until I had taker sew
erai head OF cattle from my porke-s
would he believe me. To my srea'
grief one OF the ships rats carried
OF 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. I set on to s,a
hound for Surat.
On this voyage. after a great temp
est, we put into a strange bay for we
ter. Rambling on the shore. 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.
I was here put on exhibition, and
my fame reaching the ears of the king
and queen. they commanded my pres
euee at court; and thither 1 was
brought, in the charge Of the daugh-
ter of one Of my captors, 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 a
! goodly building. housing i've hundred
horses. noble creatures Of height OF
from fifty-four to sixty feet.
OF the Lilliputians, I 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, II
: the matter Of whether it was proper
I to break an egg on the little or bi,
end-which had almost split the Lilli
/ putian kingdom in twain-as to tina
matter the Brobdingnagians woult
have lost little sleep. judge thi
4 from a comment by the Brobdingna
:. gian king on a political matter whicl
I spoke Of in connection with my owl
. country-England. 1T is tyranny,
y he said, "for a government to requir
/ those who held differing opinions t
e change or not to change them"
II His majesty was much intereste
e to hear Of England; whereat I relat
ed at length her history, which astor
le ished him. He protested that
ID seemed no more than sequence G
y conspiracies, murders, revolutions
u banishments, the worst effects tha
u avarice, faction, hypocrisy, hatret
a. lust, malice and ambition could pr
re duce. "What pernicious race {
IL odous vermin to be allowed to crav
~ upon the earthv' he said; which il
IL furious Judgment of my noble and b.
Dr loved country panied me exceedingl
e- Now while I had become a favorit
~ of great nation, it was upon such
liz footing as i'll became the dignity I
N human kind. I wished to be one
re more with people Of my own mint
ed also I longed for a Whit of that Sc
TO which looked toward my own land.
ed response to my entreaties, was take
to the sea coast. My little nur
TO- Glumdalclitch being i'll, I was put
TO charge of a page; who left me alol
10 on the shore while he sought for bird
W eggs. While thus alone, the travelil
IN cabinet in which lay was seized by
re great bird who took it far out to s.
OF and then let it drop, almost at the e
In act moment that an English ship ha
ep pened by to pick me up. Thus W
TX I singularly rescued and brought on
lot more safe to England.
as I made other voyages and had d
VI ers adventures, a NEST singular o
being that of my rescue from a desc
'st continent by the people of an isla
20. which few in the air, the same bel
sh, made to rise and fall by means Of
lad immense loadstone. The people Of t
ohi flying island held themselves as a {
w. perior race, for no greater reason ii
ar, could see than that they had Q
put eye turned inward and one turned ,
leu ward.
ere A later voyage took me to the co,
liIe try Of the Yahoos and the Hol
OF hnhnms. The Yahoos, being serv
attendants to the Houyhnhnms. we
me Of disgusting habits, and so mt
the resembled human beings that
wise and virtuous Houyhnhn