“The Hurgo (for so they call a great lord, as I afterwards learnt) understood me very well.  He commanded that several ladders should be applied to my sides, on which above an hundred of the inhabitants mounted and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by the King’s orders, upon the first intelligence he received of me.  I observed there was the flesh of several animals, but could not distinguish them by the taste.  There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.  I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets.  They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite.  I then made another sign that I wanted to drink.  They found by my eating, that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up with great dexterity one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.  They brought me a second hogshead, which I drank in the same manner, and made signs for more, but they had none to give me.  When I had performed these wonders, they shouted for joy, and danced upon my breast, repeating several times as they did at first Hekinah degul.”

And now having introduced you and Gulliver to the Lilliputians, I must leave you to hear about his further adventures among them from the book itself.  There you will learn how Gulliver received his freedom, and how he lived happily among the little people until at length Swift falls upon the quaint idea of having him impeached for treason.  Gulliver then, hearing of this danger, escapes, and after a few more adventures arrives at home.

As a contrast to what you have just read you may like to hear of Gulliver’s first adventures in Brobdingnag, the land of giants.  Gulliver had been found by a farmer and carried home.  When the farmer’s wife first saw him “she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider.”  However, when she saw that he was only a tiny man, she soon grew fond of him.

“It was about twelve at noon, and a servant brought in dinner.  It was only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of a husbandman) in a dish of about four-and-twenty foot diameter.  The company were the farmer and his wife, three children, and an old grand-mother.  When they were sat down, the farmer placed me at some distance from him on the table, which was thirty foot high from the floor.  I was in a terrible fright, and kept as far as I could from the edge for fear of falling.  The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me.  I made