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Show V ';& A CONDENSED CLASSICS GULLIVERS TRAVELS exhaustion, I Jjty nown ana Ten usieep. I aw akened to find. myself bound hand and foot, and, surrounded by swarms of the tiniest human creatures. They brought me .food and drink me to their capital, where the half-inc- h king, of a nmiesty a full taller than any of his subjects, came with his court to view me. lu time I learned that I was In the kingdom of the Lilliputians. By them I mi kept a long time in captivity. Being ultimately satisfied of the of my. Intent, I also adding my word of honor to do them no Injury, they released me, and set aside six professors of education to teach For my bodily me their language. sustenance they allowed me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for 1724 of their own people; for so, being exact in their mathematics, they estimated the proportions of my bulk to thetrs. Three hundred Cooks and one hundred and twenty waiters were named to dress my meals, two hundred to were apportioned seamstresses make my linen, and 'three hundred tailors for my outer clothing. With m,v wants thwr attended to, I was desirous to be of service to them. My first' service was not to damage their people o t their property ns I walked abroad, a most likely danger when the men were of such sire thnt I could secrete two or three of them in one of my coat pockets. In Walking the streets, were I to step heavily, there was danger of my shaking" dowm large buildings; or, by not having an eye below me, I could easily tread to death half a dozen of their cattle.. One day the king, who was most frlendlv to me, came to me in great trouble,' The emperor of the neighboring kingdom of Blefuscu had threatened to lav waste the kingdom of Lilliputia. The Blefuseuan navy, consisting of fifty great ships of war, was even then about to set sail; but I, by wading and swimming, reached their .thief harbor where they were yet at anchor. With my pocket knife I cut the cables of their fifty ships of v ar, and then, tying each ship to n piece of twine, I drew them after me to drv land, and so compelled the capitulation of Blefuscu. While this deed redounded to my glorv. it also raised me up powerful enem'es, one being the high admiral of the Lilliputian navv. ITnd I wished, I could have crushed them and their ent're kingdom under my hoots, but i there was my pledged word not to So when by secret Inharm them trigue they had me tried and condemned to the loss of nr eyes, there whs nothin" left me hut escape. I harm-lessne- Br dean swift CShmImmAmi p mm K, l CtmaBy Tfc (irat IVaa of St. Patrlcka, who ranks amoaic the uliktr aatir-lat- a of all acta aad afl laada, a bora la llocj'a Court. 1 a b 1 1 n, 31, lattubcr lie died in 1007. -- tuber 1, 1745. Thla mint brll-Hu- nt wit. urn In h, haler of raMeullty, luaMIrr of lrou and iut relit e. and true Irixb I'nirlol. wan burn to pot erly and depend-- v eneei be Htnrleil life rnililil red nnd be ended dying a of rage like rut in a hole. to uue bln own etpreahiun, lilt life waa a failure, though he played , a Blighty part. 'I.ood I. oil, nimt a BraluM I bad ehrfl I wrote thnt bm.kr he aald when ho later reread the Tale o'f a Tab, aad the wurld hna agreed with him. Yet failure eter trm bed him. He neter reunited the preferment la the ebareh whleh hit ability would have brought another; liy bln political pamphlrta he largely formed the public opinion of bln time, yet that waa the ead of It for him; he hod the atruageut attnehmenta for two women, HStella, to wham the fnnioun Jonrnal waa written, and Vaociwn. bnt little To think of happlaeoa eame to him. him, aald Tharkeray, In like thinking of the ralaa of a great empire. Galllvera Travel (173d), though a aatlre oa eourta and atateamen, ha e, Ita aurvtved temporary nnd local and, enpeelnlly In the Drat two part a, la eonaidered to be one of the great poaaeoalona of literature. d pur-poa- I WAS of a ?Jiiiin?h.'nsliIre family and educated at Cambridge. Likewise was I educated in' medicine, and picfmring a ships surgeon- cy to any preferment ashore, it came voy about that after. svi r: i deep-se- a ages I found iftj s il sin peon of that ship, the Antetop, which was wrecked ss went lo Bh'fusfii, whine I uns given a great reception nnd where they would hate me stay; hut I was weary of kings and princes, nnd told them that I desired nothing except that they would provision for me a boat, which I had found drifting on the shore, and allow me to go my way. They stored the boat with the carcasses of one hundred oxen, three hundred sheep, with cows, hulls, nnd meat as fear ar much ready-dresse- d hundred cooks could pmvld rVtv Nothing could make a better or more acceptable wedding present than a pOLEC SANITARY V- - DOWN DRAFT RANGE Beautiful in design. All nickel parts ere smootk as glass. , A large foonr? cr?en. - And a concnmnt farming closet, bill or gray enamel or plain black finish. Nothing could be easier than cooking or baking with this range. It is the Brides Choicei We invite eerpone to our store to inspect this remarkable to one-ha- lf specialty. Saves the fuel tall vJith its Hot Blast Combustion. fuel-savin- one-thi- g COLVIN & REECE rd CO. bus protected against famine, I eet ail on the third day and was picked up by an English merchant captain, w ho deemed me crazy when I told dm my story. Not until I had taker several head of cattle from my pockets would he believe me. To my grent grief, one Of the ships rata carried oil one of my sheep on the way home. On reaching shore I learned that in uncle John had died and left roe his 'state near Epplng, nnd the same being 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 hound for Surat. On this voyage, after a great tempest, we put Into a strange bay for water. Rambling on the shore, I became separated from my companions and foil into the hands of some natives of Brobdingnag, colossal men, of whom hnrdly one wras under sixty English feet In height. I wns here put on exhibition, and my fame reaching the ears of the king nnd queen, they commanded my presence at court; nnd thither I was broujrht, In the charge of the daughter of one of my captors, a little girl nnmed GJumdalclItch, nine years of ago nnd small for her years, being not above thirty feet In height. In the train of their majesties I traveled all over the kingdom, which waa six thousand miles In length by three to five thousand In breadth. The capmiles in length ital city was fifty-fou- r in breadth, a wonderful by forty-fiv- e 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 proportion. The kings stable was also a goodly building, housing five hundred horses, noble creatures of a height of to sixty feet. from fifty-fou- r Of the Lilliputians, I used to say that they were people without a blemish In their persons, and the Brob dlngnaglans coarse beyond description; but later reflection inducks me to think that the Lilliputians hhd blemishes proportionate to their size, the same being too tiny for me to estimate; and that possibly the appeared more vulgar than they truly were, their colossal ns , Utah a . proportions magnifying every defect. In some matters these large people Thus, in were at least larger-mindethe matter of whether It was proper to break an egg on the little or big end which had almost split the Lilliputian kingdom In twain as to that matter the Brobdlngnaglnns would have lost little sleep. I judge this from a comment by the Brohdingna-gla- n king on a polltleal matter which I spoke of In connection with my own It Is tyranny," I conntry England. he said, for a government to require those who held differing opinions to j or not t change them. i change His majesty was much interested to hear of England; whereat I related at length her history, which a stun- He protested that It lshed him. seemed no more than a sequence of revolutions, murders, conspiracies, banlshmentsthe worst efforts that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, hatred, lust, malice and ambition could pro-- 1 What a pernicious race of duce. odious vermin to be allowed to ornwl he said; which Inupon the earth jurious Judgment of my noble and beloved conntry pained me exceedingly. Now while I had become a favorite of a great nntlon. It was upon such a footing as 111 became the dignity of human kind. I wished to be once j mo-rpeople of my own mind ; nso j longed for a whiff of that sea looked toward my own land. In response to my entreaties, I was tnkou ; 0 ,j,e wa coast My little nurse Olumdalclltch being III, I was put In charge of a page; who left me alone on the shore while he sought for hints eggs. While thus alone, the traveling cabinet In which I lay wns seized by a great bird who took It far out to sea and then let It drop, almost at the exact moment that an English ship happened by to pick me up. Thus was I singularly rescued and brought onee v more safe to England. I made other voyages and had divers 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 means of an Immense loadstone. The people of the flying Island held themselves as a superior race, for no greater reason that I could see than that they had one eye turned Inward and one turned upward. A later voyage took me to the country of the Yahoos and the The Yahoos, being servile attendants to the Houyhnhnms, were of disgusting habits, and so much resembled human beings that the wise and virtuous Houyhnhnms took me also for a Yahoo even to the end of my etay with them, a Judgment which grieved me much. The Houyhnhnms, who had the ! forms of horses, had the most sensible laws of any creature that I ever lived with. Their abhorrence of many of our human habits was so deep that T came in time to have a contempt for my own species nnd wished that I, too, were a Ilouyhnhnm and be allowed to remain with them; hut they banished me from their kingdom as one who might set up for a leader of the Taboos and so sometime give them trouble. They allowed me to build and provision a holt; end o I paddled off and In time cached Eng-larwhere my wife end children wore terv Had to see me bv ortltJim 11!) Post; , V. j . 1 e I Ilouy-hnhnm- Pont Publishing Co. 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