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S r Y The great Brent Dean of St. St Patrick Patricks S who ho rank omon the mighty aUr ol of all ull and n all nU wn i born In Doe Court D Dub Dublin u b 1 11 5 n I is N November o 0 v e IU as b e r ad as Ue lie died Oc October October Oc- Oc tober r 10 19 1745 This moat brilliant bril brU- f. f wit genius kit 2 hater of macaRty fi master of Irony and nod Invective and true Patriot wall born to poverty pov pov- erty erty und nod dependence depend depend- ence he be started life embittered and he ended dying of 01 rage like a n poisoned rat rot In a n hole to ease his bin own TD expression Ills DIH life Ufe I iras uns a failure though he lie played a mighty part purt Good God what a genius I hud had when I wrote that bookS book he tie said fluid when he later Inter reread the Tale ITale of n a Tub Tub and the world has bus agreed with him Yet failure ever tracked him He lie never neier received the preferment preferment preferment prefer prefer- ment In the church which hi his bill ability would have brought another by his bill political be he largely formed the public opinion of his hi time yet that was the end of It for him hump him he had hod the strongest t attachments attachment for two to women romen Stella Stena to whom Thorn the famous Journal was written and Vanessa but little happiness came to him To think of him said suld Thackeray Is uis like thinking g of the ruins of a n great empire Travels 1720 t though n a satire on courts and statesmen has i survived ltd Its temporary nod and local purpose purpose pur pur- pose and especially In the first two part rtH Is la considered to be one ono of th the tha great creat possessions of literature i- i iWAS WAS of a Nottinghamshire family family fam fam- I H ily lly and educated cl at Cambridge Likewise was I educated in Ia medicine medi cine and preferring a ships ship's surgeon surgeon- cy to any preferment ashore It came about that after several sea deep-sea voyages voyages voy voy- i ages I found myself surgeon of that ship the Antelope which was vas wrecked In a violent storm on a coast northwest northwest northwest north north- west of Van DIemen's Land Of all the ships ship's company I alone escaped to the land where in utter exhaustion I lay down and fell asleep I awakened t to to- find myself bound hand and foot and surrounded by swarms swanns of the tiniest human creatures They brought me food and drink and conveyed conveyed conveyed con con- me to their capital where the king of ot a majesty a full inch half-inch taller than any of his subjects came with his court to view me In time I learned that I was In the kingdom of the Lilliputians By them themI I was kept a long time in captivity i Being ultimately satisfied of the harmlessness harmlessness harmlessness harm- harm I I of my Intent I also adding my word of honor to do them no Injury Injury injury In In- jury they released me and set aside six professors of education to teach me their language For my bodily bodny sustenance they allowed d me a quantity quantity quantity quan- quan quan quan- of meat and drink sufficient for I 1724 of their own people for so beIng being belag be be- ing lag exact in their mathematics the they estimated the proportions of my bulk to theirs Three hundred cooks and andone andone andone one hundred and twenty waiters walters were I named to dress my meals manIs two hundred j I seamstresses were apportioned to tomake tomake tomake make my linen and three hundred tailors tallor for my outer clothing With my ray wants thus attended to I was desirous to b be of service to te them My l first service was not to damage their people or their property as I walked abr abroad ad a most likely danger danger danger dan dan- ger when the men were of such size that I could secrete two or three of them In one of my coat pockets In w walking the streets were I to step heavily there was danger of my shakIng shaking shak shak- ing lag down doYn large buildings or by not having an eye below me I could easily 11 ily tread to death half a dozen of their cattle One day the king who was most friendly y to me came to me In great trouble The emperor of the neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring kingdom of had threatened to lay waste the kingdom of The he navy consisting of ot fifty great ships of ot war was even then about to set sail but butI I by wading and swimming reached their chief harbor harbor where they were yet at anchor With my pocket knife knifer i I r cut the cables of their fifty ships of war and then tying each ship to a apiece apiece apiece piece of twine I drew them after me meto meto meto to dry land and so compelled the capitulation of While this deed redounded to my glory It also raised me up powerful enemies one being the high admiral of the tile Lilliputian navy Had I wished I could have crushed them and their entire kingdom under my boots but there was my ray pledged word not to harm them So when by secret Intrigue Intrigue In In- they had Imd me tried and condemned condemned condemned con con- to the loss of my eyes there was nothing left me but escape 1 I went to where I was given a n great reception aul where they would have me me- stay but I was w weary ary o Q of kings and princes and told them that r T d desired nothing except that they I would provision for me a n. n boat which i I had found drifting on the shore and allow me to go my way They stored the boat with the carcasses carcasses car car- casses of one hundred oxen three hundred d sheep with cows bulls and andas andas' andas as ns' ns much flInch ready dressed meat ment as four hundred cooks could provide Being I r J i I I 1 I set rei et I Isail famine thus protected against II sail saU on the third day and was picked merchant captain English by an up I told him aim when who deemed me crazy I my ray story Not until I had bad taken several several sev sev- eral head of ot cattle from my pockets would he believe me mc To my great grief one of at the ships ship's rats carried home on the way off oft one of at my sheep On reaching shore I learned that my uncle John had bad died and left me his being beIng being be be- estate near Epping and the same a e ing sufficient to keep my family from want and the lust to wander vander being still stUl quick within me I set off ore to sea seB once more this time In the Adventure bound for Surat On this this' voyage after a great tempest tempest tempest temp temp- for wa va est we put Into a n strange bay ter Rambling on the shore I became companions and separated from my fell tell Into the hands handa of some somo natives of ot of colossal men whom hardly one one was under sixty English feet In height and I was here put on exhibition my fame reaching the ears of the Id king g and queen they commanded m my preSence presence presence pres pres- and thither I was ence at court brought in the charge of the daughter daugh ter of of one of my my riy captors a little girl gin named nine years ears ot of otage age and small for her years being not I feet In height above thirty y In the train of their majesties I traveled trav tray all aU over the kingdom which was six thousand miles in length by three to five thousand in breadth The capItal capItal capital cap cap- ital city was four fifty miles in length by forty-five forty in breadth a wonderful city where the kings king's palace was seven miles around and the chief room therein two hundred an and forty feet high and broad and long In tion The kings king's stable was also alse- alsea a goodly building housing five hundred d horses noble creatures of a height of ot from four fifty-four to sixty feet Of the Lilliputians I used to say that they were people without a blemish blemish blem lem ish In their persons and the coarse beyond description description tion but later reflection Induces me meto meto meto to think that the Lilliputians had blemishes proportionate to their size the s same me being too tiny for me to es es Cs- and that possibly the appeared more vulgar than they truly were their colossal proportions magnifying every defect In some matters these large people were at least larger Thus In Inthe Inthe the matter of whet whether r it was ivas proper to break an nn egg o o the little or bit big end which end which had almost split the LU kingdom i ly IU twain twain twain-as as to that matter the would have lost little I judge this from a comment by the gian king on a political matter which I spoke of ot In connection with my own country 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 ranch much Interested to hear of England whereat I related related related ed at length her history which astonIshed astonished astonished aston aston- him He protested that It seemed no more than a sequence of I Ii conspiracies murders revolutions I banishments the worst effects that avarice faction hypocrisy hatred lust malice maUce and ambition could pro pro- duce What a pernicious race of odious vermin to be allowed to crawl upon the earth I he said which Injurious injurious Injurious In In- jurious judgment of my noble and beloved beloved be be- loved country pained me exceedingly Now while I had become a favorite of a great nation it was upon such a footing as ill became the dignity of ot human kind I wished to be once more with people of my own mind also I longed for a whiff of that sea sen which looked toward my own land In response to my entreaties I was taken tal talento to the sea coast My little nurse being Ill I was put In charge of a page who left me alone on the shore while he sought for birds' birds eggs eggs While thus alone the traveling cabinet in which I lay was seized by a great bird who took It far out to sea an and then let it drop almost at the exact exact ex ex- act moment that an English ship happened happened happened hap hap- by to pick me up Thus was wasI wasi i I r singularly rescued and brought once more more safe to England I made other other- voyages and had divers div ers adventures a most singular one being that of my rescue rescue from a n d desert sert continent by the people of an an Island which flew In the air the same being made to rise and fall faU by means of an Immense loadstone The people of the flying island held themselves as a superIor superior superior su su- su- su 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 country coun coun- try of the Yahoos and the Houy Houy- The Yahoos being servile attendants to the were I of disgusting habits and so much resembled human beings that the wise and virtuous 1 took me also for a n Yahoo even to the end of my stay with them a n Judgment Judg Judg- ment meat which grieved me much The who had the forms torms of horses borses had the most sensible laws of any creature that I ever lived with Their ab abhorrence of many of ot our human habits was so deep that I came In time to have a n contempt for formy formy formy my own species and wished that I too were a n and be al allowed allowed al- al lowed to remain with them but they banished m me from their kingdom a aone as one who might set up for a leader of ot the Yahoos and so sometime give them trouble They allowed allowe me to build an and pr provision a boat and so o I paddled off and In time reached Eng land where my wife and children were very glad to see me Copyright 1919 by b- Post Poet Publishing Co The he Boston Post Poet All AU rights served reserved reserved I Published by special arrangement with the McClure er rl bb I |