The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-10-14

would he believe me. To my grea
grief. one Of the ships rats carries
of n OF my sheep on the way home
On reaching shore l learned that m.
uncle John had died and left me hi
estate near Epping. and the same be
ing sufficient to keep my family iron
want and the lust to wander beinl
still quick within me, l set of to sc.
nee 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. / became
separated from my companions and
Of Br0bdingnag, colossal men. OF
whom hardly one was under sixty
English feet In height.
1 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 l 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-11ve 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 q
goodly building. housing five hundred
horses, noble creatures of a height Of
from ffty-fOur to sixty feet.
OF the Lilliputians, 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 o. tiny for md 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 II vas proper
TO break an egg on the little or big
end-which had almost split the Ltlli-
putian kingdom in twain-as to that
the neutrality-suspicious. would
have lost little sleep. l judge this
from a cOmmept by the Br~obdingna-
gian king on a political matter which
7 spoke OF in connection with my own
country-England. at is tyranny"
said. 'fOr a government to require
those who held differing opinions TO
pr not to change them" +
His majesty was much interested
TO hear Of England; whereat l relat-
ad at length her history. which aston }
him. He protested that 1t
no more than a sequence Of
rOnSpiracies. murders. revolutions,
Danishments. the worst effects that
'~varice. faction. hypocrisy. hatred.
ust. malice and ambition could pro-
what a pernicious race Of
'di0us vermin to be allowed to crawl
lpon the earth :" he. said; which in .
urious judgment Of my noble and be-
owed country panied me exceedingly. !
Now while I had become a favorite .
# a great nation. it was upon such a =
oOting as III became the dignity Of !
luman kind. I wished TO be once .
with people of my own mind /
lSO | longed for q Whit OF that sea I
Thich looked toward my own land. In J
espOnse to my e%ntreaties. I was taken :,
0 the sea coast. My little nurse 1
ilumdalclitch being i'll, I was put in {
barge Of q rage: who left me alone '
n the shore while he sought for birds '
ggs. While thus alone, the travelling +
in which | lay was seized by q L
bird who took 1t far out to sea = r
nd then let it drop. almost at the ex- e
ct moment that an English ship hap T
n by to pick me up. Thus was q
singularly rescued and brought once n
ore safe To England. IL
| made other voyages and had div r
3 adventures. a most singular one II
ing that of my rescue from a desert =
by The people of an island y
hich tlcW In the air. the same being II
ade 70 rise and fall by means~of an p
tombstone. The people of the 7.
ing island irld themselves as q SUI B
race, for no greater reason that "
could see than that they had one il
e turned inward and one turned up ).
ard. ~
A. later voyage tool me to the cOun- l.
Y Of the Yahoos and the Houy-
hnms. The TahoOs, being servile n
tendants to the H%ouyhnhnms. were =;
disgusting habits, and so much y,
sembled human beings that the 7
sc and virtuous Houyhnhnms a
ok me also for a Yahoo even to the J.
d Of my STAY with them. a iudg- H