The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-11-13

WUulu Hc Deliefc Iuc. 10 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 from
want and the lust to wander being
still quick within me. set of to sea
once more, this time in the Adventure,
bound for Surat.
On this voyage. after great temp
est, we put into q 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, Of
whom hardly one was under sixty
English feet In height.
was here put on exhibition, and
my fame reaching the ears Of the hang
and queen, they commanded ny Pres
ence at court;s and thither I was
brought in the charge Of the daugh-
ter Of one Of my captoFs. 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 ! tzav-
eled all over the kingdom. which was
six thousand miles in length BY three
to five thousand In breadth. The sap-
ftal city was 1fty-four miles IN length
BY forty-flvt n breadth. wonderful
city where the kings palace was
seven miles around and the chief soom
therein two hundred and forty feet
high, and broad and long = prspor-
ton. The kings stable was also q
goodly building. housing i've hundred
horses, noble creatures Of height Of
from ffty-four to sixty feet
OF the LilliputianA I used to say
that they were people without hlem-
fish In their persons, and tho Brob-
coarse beyond deecSlp-
ton; but later reflection induces me
to think that the Lilliputians had
blemishes proportionate to their size,
the same being too tiny for me - e.
innate: and that possibly the Brob-
appeared more vulgar
than they truly were. their colossal
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 big
end-which had almost split the Lilli-
putian kingdom In twain-as to that
matter the neutrality-suspicious. would
have lost little sleep. judge this
from a comment by the Brobdingna-
gian king on . political matter which
I spoke Of In connection with ny avn
country-England. 1T % tyranny"
he said, '.for government 70 require
those who held differing opinions 70
change Of not to change them"
His majesty was much interested
to hear Of England: whereat I remit
ed at length her history. which astOn-
Ished him. He protested that It
seemed no moro than = sequence Of
murders. revsmfions,
banishments, the worst effects that
avarfce. faction, hypocrisy. haired.
Inst, malice and ambition csuld pr0..
duce. 'sWhat 4 perniciOus race Of
odiops vermin to be allowed % crawl
upon the earthl" he said; which h
furious judgment Of my noble and be-
loved country panied me exceedingly.
Now while had become favorfte
of great nation, It was upon such .
footing as III became the dignity Of
human kind. I wished to be once
more with people Of my own mind;
also longed for . whfn q that sea
which looked toward my own lana In |
to my entreaties, / was taken |
10 the sea coast. Ny little nurse |
being Ill, I was put n |
:harge Of a page: who left me alone
~ the shore while be sought for birds
Eggs. While thus alone. the trRveang |
,abinet in which lay was seized by
reat bird who took 1t far ont to sea
ind then let 1t drop, almost at the ex-
let moment that an English ship hap
,ened BY to pick me up, Thus was
singularly rescued and brought once
more safe to England.
made other voyages and had div.
.rs adventures, q most singular one
,eing that Of my rescue from desert
ointment BY the people Of an island
which few In the afr. the same beius
made to rise and fall by means Of An
loadstone. The people Of the
lying island held themselves as -
'erior race. for no greater reason that
could see than that they had enc
We turned inward and one turned ~
yard.
A later voyage took me to the eoun-
~ Of the Yahoos and the Houy-
nhnms. The Yahoos being servsle
ttendants TO the Houyhnhnms, were
+ disgusting habits, and - much
human beings that the
vise and virtuous Houylmhnkns
COX me also for Yahoo even t. ~
nd cf my stay with them, ! jadg-
nent which gr1eved me much.
The Houyhnhnms. who haa The
orms Of horses had the most sensible |
sws Of any creature that I ever lived |
nth. Their abhorrence 81 many q +
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