White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16

4 NUS UIOtNNlCo dAuAAb
sail on the third day and was picked
m by an English merchant captain,
who deemed me crazy when told him
nv story. Not until I 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 | learned that my
uncle John had died and left me his
estate near Epping, and the same pc
ing sufficient to keep my family from
want and the lust to wander being
still quick within me, I set off to sea
once 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
fell a the hands Of some natives|
Of BTobdingnag, colossal men, OIL
whom hardly one was under sixty
English feet in height.
l 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, I'm the charge of the daugh-l
ter of one Of my captors. a little girl
named Glumdalclftch. nine years on
age and small for her years, being mott
above thirty feet in height.
In the train Of their majesties l trav-l
eIed all wei the kingdom, which was|
six thousand miles in length by threel
10 five thousand in breadth. The capt.
ftal city was ffty-four miles in length
by forty-iye 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 five hundred
horses. noble creatures of a height or
from ifty-four to sixty feet.
OF the Lilliputians, I used to say
that they were people without u biem-
fsh In their persons, and the Brob-
dingnagians coarse beyond descrip-
tion but later reflection induces me
TO think that the Lilliputlans had
blemishps proportionate to their size,
fine same being too tiny for me to es-
innate; and that possibly the BrOb-
dingnagfans appeared more vulgar
than they truly We're, their colossal
proportions magnifying every defect.
In some matters these large people
we're Mt least larger-minded. Thus, in
the matter 0f whether ii was proper
to break an egg on the little oil big
end-whfch had almost split the Lflli-
putian kingdom in twafn-as to that
matter the Brobdingnagians would
have lost little sleep. ! judge this
from a comment by the Brobdingna-
gian king on n political' matter which
r spoke of i'm connection with my
country-Engfand. "It is tyranny"
he. said. "for a government to required
those who held differing opinions toll
change. or mot to change them"
His majesty was much interested
to. hear Of England; whereat I re8at-
ed at length her history, which aston
ished him. He protested that It'll
seemed no more than a sequence of
eonspiracies. murders, revolutions,
banishments, the worst effects that
avarice, faction. hypocrisy, hatred,
lust, malice and ambition could pro-
duce. "What a p%ernici0us race of
asiious vermfn to be allowed to crawl
upon the earth" he said; which in
furious judgment of my noble and bel
loved country panied me exceedingly
Now while I had become a faverite
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 nuind;
also I longed for a Whit of that sea
which looked toward my own land. In
response to my entreaties. l was taken
to the sea coast. My little nurse
Glumdalclitch being i'll, I 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 I Fay was seized by a
great bird who took it 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
I singularly rescued and brought once
more safe to England.
l made other voyages and had div.
ers adventures, a most singular one
being that of nay 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 means Of an
immense loadstOne. The people of the
flying island held themselves as a SUI
perior race, for no greater reason that
I 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 YahOes and the Houy-
hnhnms. The Yahoos, being servlle
attendants to the Houyhnhnms, wereI
Of disgusting habits. and so much
resembled human beings that the
wise and v%irtuous Houyhnhnms
took me also for a Yahoo even to the
end Of my stay with them, a .judg-
ment which grieved me much. ,