Connecticut western news., 1920-11-18

my story. Not until l had taker sev
 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 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 iron want and the lust to wander being
 still quick within me, l set off to seq once more, this time in the Adventure
 bound for Surat.
 On this voyage, after great temp
 est, we put into strange bay for wa ter. Rambling on the shore, became separated from my companions and fell into the hands of some natives of Brobdingnag, colossal men, o1 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. ence at court; and thither I 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 tray. 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 propor- ton. The kings stable was also goodly building, housing five hundred horses, noble creatures of a 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 descrfp- 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- timate; 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 on the little or lNg end-which had almost split the Lilli- putian kingdom in twain-as to that matter the Brobdingnagians would have lost little sleep. I judge this from a comment by the Brobdingna- gian king on political matter which I spoke of in connection with my own country-England. "It is 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 I relat- ed at length her history, which aston ished him. He protested that it seemed no more than 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 '" he said; which in furious judgment of my noble and be- loved country pained 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 own mind also I longed for a whiff 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, 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 I lay was seized by a great bird who took 1t 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 singularly rescued and brought once more safe to England.
 I made other voyages and had div CTS 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 meanssof an immense loadstone. The people of the flying island held themselves as a su- perior race, for no greater reason that 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- hnhnms. The Yahoos, being servile attendants to the Houyhnhnms, were of disgusting habits, and so much | resenbled human beings that the wise and virtuous Houyhnhnms | Annlr mo nIno ao- a Vahaa a--a-> 4A 4h