GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
INTO THE KINGDOM OF
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RECORDING HIS
STRANGE ADVENTURE IN THAT REMOTE
COUNTRY.
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He then commanded his General who was an old experienced leader
and a great patron of mine, to lead up the troops in close order and march
them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, and the horse by si*
teen, with drums beating, colors flying, and pikes advanced. The body
consisted of three thousand foot and a thousand horse.
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GULLIYER'S TRAVELS
INTO THE KINGDOM OF
RECORDING HI1
STRANGE ADVENTURE IN THAT REMOTE;
COUNTRY.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.
A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT.
CHAPTER I.
Oulliver gives some account of himself and his first inducements to travel.
He is shipwrecked, and swims for for his life; gets safe on shore in the
country of Lilliput; is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.
My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was
the third of five sons. After completing my education,
I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent
surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years; and
my father now and then sending me small sums of money, I
laid them out in learning navigation, and the mathematics,
useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it
would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
Shortly after the expiry of *ny indentures, I was recommend-
ed to be surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannell,
commander; with whom I continued three years and a half,
making a royage er two into the Levant, and some other
parts.
I afterwards accepted an advantageous offer from Captaia
William Pritchard, master of the Antelope, who was making
a voyage to the South Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4,
1699, and our voyage at first was very prosperous; but in our
passage from these seas to the East Indies we were driven
by a violent storm to the noth-west of Van Diemen's Land,
and the ship immediately split. Six of the crew, of whom I
was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a shift
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6" gtjlliyer's voyage
to get clear of the ship and the rock. We rowed about three
leagues till we were able to work no longer. We therefore
trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about
half an hour the boat was overset. What became of my
companions in the boat, or of those who were left in the
vessel, I cannot tell; but I swam as fortune directed me, and
was pushed forward by wind and tide till I got to the shore,
about, as I conjectured, eight o'clock in the evening. I then
advanced forward near half a mile, but could not discover
any sign of houses or inhabitants. Being extremely tired,
and finding myself much inclined to sleep, I lay down on the
grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder
than ever I remembered to have done in my life. When I
waked, I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir j for, as
I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were
fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair was tied
down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender
cords across my body, from my armpits to my thighs. I
heard a confused noise about me; but, in the posture I lay,
could see nothing except the sky.
In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left
leg* which advanced gradually up to my chin j when, bending
my eyes downward, I perceived it to be a human creature not
six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands and a
quiver at his back. In the mean time I felt at least forty
more of the same kind (as! conjectured) following the first.
I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud, that
they all ran back m a f-ight. However, they soon returned,
and one of them, lifting up his hands and eyes by way of ad^
miration, cried out in a shrill but distinct voice, Hekinah degul!
the others repeating the same words several times. I lay all
thb while" in great uneasiness; at length, struggling to get
loose, 1 had the fortune to break some of the strings, and
to uixmnv y
wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground.
I was just able to turn my head about two inches. But the
creatures ran off a second time before I could seize them:
whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent,
and after it ceased one of them cried aloud, Tolgo phonac!
when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged
on my left hand, which pricked me like so many needles.
When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a-groaning with
pain, and then striving again to get loose^ they discharged
another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempt-
ed with spears to stick me in the sides j but by good luck I
had on me a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce. I
thought it best to lie still, and my design was to continue so
till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could
easily free myself; and as for the inhabitants, I had reason
to believe I might be a match for the greatest army they
could bring against me. But when the people observed I was
quiet, they discharged no more arrows j but, by the noise I
heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards
from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for
above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning
my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would per-
mit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from
the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with
two or three ladders to mount it; from whence one of them,
who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech*
whereof I understood not one syllable. Immediately about
fifty of the inhabitants came and cut the strings that fastened
the left side of my head, which allowed me to turn to the
right, and observe the person and gesture of him that was to
speak. He appeared to be taller than any of the other three
who attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his
Irain, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle-
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gulliver's voyage
finger; the other two stood one on each side to support hira.
I answered in a few words, but in the most submissive man-
ner, lifting up my left hand and both my eyes to the sun, as

calling him for a witness; and being almost' famished with
hunger, I put my finger frequently to my mouth, to signify
that I wanted food. The hurgo (for so they call a great lord,
as I afterwards learnt) understood me. He descended from
the stage, and commanded that several ladders should be ap-
plied to my sides, on which above a hundred of the inhabit-
ants mounted, and walked towards my mouth, laden with
baskets full of meat.
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 the greatest
wonder at my bulk and appetite. I then made another sign,
that I wanted drink. Being a most ingenious people, they
slang up with great dexterity one of their largest hogsheads,
TO ULLIFTTT. 9
then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top: I drank
it off at a draught for it did not hold half a pint; 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,
repeating several times as they did at first, HeMnah degul I
They made me a sign that I should throw down the two hogs-
heads, but first warning the people below to stand out of the
way; and when they saw the vessels in the fcair, there was
another shout of Hekinah degul!
After, some time there appeared before me a person of
high rank from his imperial majesty. His excellency advan-
ced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue,
and spoke about ten minutes without any signs of anger, but
with a kind of determined resolution, often pointing forwards,
which, as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city,
about half a mile distant; whither it was agreed by his ma-
jesty in council that I must be conveyed. I answered in few
words, but to no purpose, and made a sign to signify that I
desired my liberty. It appeared that he understood me well
enough, for he shook his head by way of disapprobation.
However, he made other signs to let me understand, that I
should have meat and drink enough, and very good treatment.
I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds; but,
when I felt the smart of their arrows upon my face and hands,
and many of the darts still sticking in them, and observing
likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave
tokens to let them know that they might do with me what
they pleased. Upon this the hurgo and his train withdrew.
Soon after I felt great numbers of people on my left side^ re-
laxing the cords to such a degree that I was able to turn
upon my right. But before this they had daubed my face
and both my hands with a sort of ointment, which, in a few
minutes, removed all the smart of their arrows.
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It seems, that upon the first moment I was discovered, the
emperor had early notice of it, and determined in council,
that I should be tied in the manner I have related (which
was done while I slept); that plenty of meat and drink should
be sent me, and a machine prepared to carry me to the capital
city.
These people being excellent mathematicians, five hundred
carpenters and engineers were immediately set at work to
prepare a great engine for my conveyance. But the principle
difficulty was to raise and place me in this vehicle. But
they at last, by means of pulleys, wheels, hooks, and other
contrivances, succeeded in their purpose. All this I was
told; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a
profound sleep, which was caused by the force of some sleepy
potion the emperor's physicians had mingled in the wine I
partook of. Fifteen hundred of the emperor's largest horses,
each about four inches and a half high, were then employed
to draw me towards the metropolis, which, as I said, was
half a mile distant.
About four hours after we began our journey, I was awa-
ked through the curiosity of one of the officers in the guards
who put the sharpend of his half-pike a good way up into
my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made
me sneeze violently, whereupon they stole off unperceived;
and it was not till three weeks after that I knew the cause
of my waking so suddenly. We made a long march the re-
maining part of the day, and rested at night with five hundred
guarAs on each side of me, half with torches, and half with
bows and arrows, ready to shoot me if I should offer to stir.
The next morning at sunrise we continued our march, and
arrived within two hundred yards of the city-gates about noon.
The emperor and all hb court came out to meet us.
At the place where the carriage Stopped there stood all
TO LILLIPUT. 11
ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole king,
dom. In this edifice it was determined I should lodge. The
great gate was about four feet high, and almost two feet
wide, through which I could easily creep. On each side
was a small window, not above six inches from the ground .
into that on the left side the king's smith conveyed fourscore
and eleven chains, like those that hung to a lady's watch in
Europe, and almost as large, which were locked to my left
leg with six-and-thirty padlocks. On the other side of the
great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a turret at
least five feet high. Here the emperor ascended, with many
principals lords of his court, to have an opportunity of view-
ing me, as I was told, for I could not see them. It was
reckoned that above a hundred thousand inhabitants came out
of the town upon the same errand. When the workmen
found it was imposible for me to break loose, they cut the
remaining strings that bound me. But the noise and asto-
nishment of the people at seeing me rise and walk are not to
be expressed. The chains that held my left leg were about
two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking
backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed
within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and
lie at my full length in the temple.
CHAPTER II.
The Emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes *jo
see Gulliver in his confinement. The Emperor's person and habit de-
scribed. Learned men appointed to teach Gulliver their language.
His pockets are searched and his sword and pistols cakes from htm.
When I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and
must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect.
The country around appeared like a continued garden, and
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the enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square,
resembled so many beds of flowers. The tallest trees appear-
ed to be seven feet high. I viewed the town on my left
hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a
theatre.
The emperor now descended from the tower, and was ad-
vancing on horseback towards me, but had like to have met
with a serious mishap from the terror of his beast, which
plunged and reared when he came within sight of me. This
prince, however, being an excellent horseman, kept his seat
till some of his attendants ran to his assistance. "When he
alighted, he surveyed me round with great admiration; but
kept beyond the length of my chain. He ordered rae
victuals and drink, which his cooks and butlers pushed for-
ward in a sort of vehicles upon wheels, till I could reach
them. Twenty of them were filled with meat and ten with
liquor; each of the former afforded me two or three good
mouthfuls; and I emptied the liquor of ten vessels, which
was contained in earthen vials, into one vehicle, drinking it
off" at a draught; and so I did with the rest. The empress,
and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by
many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but upon
the accident that happened to the emperor's horse, they alight-
ed, and came near his person. He is taller, by almost the
breadth of my nail, than any of his court. His dress was
very plain and simple, and the fashion of it between the
Asiatic and the European; but he had on his head a light
helmet of gold, adorned with jewels, and a plume on the
crest. His sword was almost three inches long: the hilt
and scabbard were gold enriched with diamonds. His voice
was shrill but clear, and I could distinctly hear it when I
stood up. The ladies and courtiers were all most magnifi-
cently clad. His majesty spoke often to me, and I returned
TO tlLUPUT. 13
answers j but neither of- us could understand a syllable.
After about two hours the court retired, and I was left with
a strong guard, to prevent the impertinence of the rabble,
who were very impatient to crowd about me as near as they
durst.
Towards night I got with some difficulty into my house,
where I lay on the ground, and continued to do so about a
fortnight; during which time the emperor gave orders to
have a bed prepared for me. Six hundred beds of the com-
mon measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in
my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together,
made up the breadth and length; and these were four double;
which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the
hardness of the floor, which was of smooth stone. By the
same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets,
and coverlets.
As the news of my arrival spread through the kingdom, it
brought prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious people
to see me.
In the mean time the emperor held frequently councils, to
debate what course should be taken with me; and I was
afterwards assured, by a person of great quality, that the
court was under many difficulties concerning me. After
several consultations, a commission was issued out, obliging
all the villages round the city to deliver in every morning
six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance;
together with a proportionable quantity of bread and wine,
and other liquors; for the due payment of which his majesty
gave assignments upon his treasury. An establishment was
also made of six hundred persons to be my domestics, who
had board-wages allowed for their maintainance, and teats
built for them very conveniently on each side of my door.
It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should
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14 Gulliver's travels
make me a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country;
that six of his majesty's greatest scholars should be employed
to instruct me in their language: and, lastly, that the em-
peror's horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards,
should be frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom them-
selves to me. All these orders were duly put in execution;
and in about three weeks i made great progress in learning
their language; during which time the emperor frequently
honoured me with his visits, and was pleased to assist my
masters in teaching me.
His majesty one day said he hoped «I would not take it ill,
if he gave orders to certain proper officers to search me; for
probably I might carry about me several weapons, which must
needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so
prodigious a person." I said, "His majesty should be sat-
isfied; for I was ready to strip myself, and turn out my
pockets before him." Two officers were then appointed for
this task. These I took up in my hands, put them first in
my coat-pockets, and then into every other pocket about me,
except my two fobs and another secret pocket, which I had
no mind should be searched, wherein I had some little ne-
cessaries that were of no consequence to any but myself.
In one of my fobs there was a silver watch, and in the other
a small quantity of gold in a purse. These gentlemen made
an exact inventory of every thing they saw; which I after-
wards translated into English, and is as follows:
"Imprimis, In the right coat-pocket of the great man-
mountain (for so I interpret the words quinbus flestrin) we
found a great piece of coarse cloth, large enough to be a
foot-cloth for your majesty's chief room of state. Next we
saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal,
which we were not able to lift. We desired it should be
opened, and one of us stepping into it, found himself up to
TO ULLIPTTT. 15
the mid-leg in a sort of dust, some part whereof flying up to
our faces, set us both a-sneezing for several times together.
In the left there was a sort of engine, from the back of which
were extended twenty long poles, resembling the palisadoes
before your majesty's court; wherewith we conjectured the
man-mountain combs his head. In a large pocket we saw
two hollow pillars of iron, about the length of a man, fastened
to strong pieces of timber larger than the pillars j and upon
one side of the pillars were huge pieces of iron sticking out,
cut into strange figures, which we knew not what to make
of. There were two pockets which we could not enter; these
he called his fobs. Out of the right fob hung a great silver
chain, with a wonderful kind of engine at the bottom. We
directed him to draw out whatever was at the end of that
chain; which appeared to be a globe, half silver and half of
some transparent metal j for on the transparent side, we saw
certain strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we
could touch them, till we found our fingers stopt by that lucid
substance. He put his engine to our ears, which made an
incessant noise, like that of a water-mill. He called it his
oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of
his life. From the left fob he took out a net almost large
enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like
a purse, and which served him for the same use: we found
therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they
be real gold, must be of immense value.
« Having thus, in obedience to your majesty's commands
diligently searched all his pockets, we observed a girdle
about his waist made of the hide of some prodigious animal,
from which, on the left side, hung a sword of the length of
five men; and on the right a bag or pouch divided into two
cells, each cell capable of holding three of your majesty's
subjects. In one of these cells were several globes, or balls,
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guixiver's voyage
of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads,
and requiring a strong hand to lift them: the other cell con-
tained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or
weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of
our hands.
« This is an exact inventory of what we found about the
body of the man-mountain, who used us with great civility,
and due respect to your majesty's commission.
« Clefrin Frelock, Mar si Frelock."
When this inventory was read over to the emperor, he
directed me, although in very gentle terms, to deliver up the
several particulars. He first called for my scimitar, which I

took out, scabbard and all. In the mean time he ordered
three thousand of his choicest troops (who then attended
him) to surround me at a distance, with their bows and
TO LILXIPUT. It
arrows just ready to discharge j but I did not observe it, for
my eyes were wholly fixed upon his majesty. He then
desired me to draw my scimitar, which, although it had got
some rust by the sea-water, was in most parts exceeding
bright. I did so, and immediately all the troops gave a shout
between terror and surprise; for the sun shone clear, and
the reflection dazzled their eyes as I waved the scimitar to
and fro in my hand. His majesty, who is a most magnani-
mous prince, was less daunted than I could expect j he or-
dered me to return it into the scabbard, and cast it on the
ground as gently as I could, about six feet from the end of
my chain. The next thing he demanded was one of the hol-
low pillars; by which he meant my pocket pistols. I drew
it out, and at his desire, as well as I could, expressed to h im
the use of it; and charging it only with powder, I first
cautioned the emperor not to be afraid, and then I let it off
in the air. The astonishment here were greater than at the
sight of the scimitar. Hundreds fell down as if they had
been struck dead; and even the emperor, although he stood
his graund, could not recover himself for some time. I then
delivered up my pistols, my scimitar, my pouch of powder
and bullets; and last my watch, which the emperor was
very curious to see, and commanded two of his tallest yeo-
men of the guards to bear it on a pole upon their shoulders,
as draymen in England do a barrel of ale. He was amazed
at the continual noise it made, and the motion of the minute-
hand, which he could easily discern; for their sight is much
more acute than ours. I then delivered over to the custody
of his majesty my several effects, with the exception of the
articles contained in the private pocket, which escaped their
search, wherein there were a pair of spectacles, a pocket
perspective, and some other little conveniences, which, being
of no consequence to the emperor, I did not find myself
bound in honour to discover.
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1$ guixiver's voyage
CHAPTER III.
Gulliver diverts the Emperor and his nobility of both sexes in a very un-
common manner. The inversions of the Court of Lilliput described,
Gulliver has his liberty granted him upon certain conditions.
My gentleness and good behavior had gained so far on the
emperor and his people, that I began to conceive hopes of
getting my liberty. I took all methods to cultivate this dis-
position. The natives came by degrees to be less apprehen-
sive of any danger from me; I would sometimes lie down,
and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the
boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide and
seek in my hair. I had now made a good progress in under-
standing and speaking the language. The emperor had a
mind one day to entertain me with several of the country
shows, wherein they exceeded all nations I have known both
for dexterity and magnificence. I was diverted with none so
much as that of the rope-dancers, who performed upon a
slender white thread, extended about two feet, and twelve
inches from the ground.
There is likewise another diversion, which is only shown
before the emperor and empress, and first minister, upon
particular occasions. The emperor lays on the table three
fine silken threads of six inches long; one is blue, the other
red, and the third green. These threads are proposed as
prizes for those persons whom the emperor has a mind to
distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favor. The ceremony
is performed in his majesty's great chamber of state. The
emperor holds a stick in his hands, while the candidates ad-
vancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, some-
times creep under it, backward and forward, several times,
according as the stick is advanced or depressed. Sometimes
the emperor holds one end of the stick, and his first minister
the other j sometimes the minister has it entirely to himself.
Whoever performs his part with most agility, and holds out
TO LILLIPTJT.
19
the longest in leaping and creeping, is rewarded with the
blue-colored silk; the red is given to the next, and the green
to the third, which they all wear girt twice round about the
middle; and you see few great persons about this court who
are not adorned with one of these girdles.
The horses of the array, and those of the royal stables,
having been daily led before me, were no longer shy. The
riders would leap them over my hand, as I held it on the
ground; and one of the emperor's huntsmen, upon a large
courser, took my foot, shoe and all; which was indeed a
prodigious leap. I had the good fortune to divert the empe-
ror one day after a very extraordinary mariner. I desired he
would order several sticks of two feet high, and the thick-
ness of an ordinary cane, to be brought me, which being
done, I took nine of these sticks, and fixing them firmly in
the ground in a quadrangular figure, two feet and a half
square, I took four other sticks, and tied them parallel at
each corner about two feet from the ground; then I fastened
my handkerchief to the nine sticks that stood erect, and ex-
tended it on all sides, till it was tight as the top of a drum;
and the lour parallel sticks, rising about five inches higher
than the handkerchief, served as ledges on each side. When
I had finished my work, I desired the emperor to let a troop
of his best horse, twenty-four in number, come and exercise
upon this plain. His majesty approved of the proposal, and
I took them up, one by one, in my hands, ready mounted
and armed, with the proper officers to exercise them. As
soon as they got into order, they divided into two parties,
performed mock skirmishes, discharged blunt arrows, drew
their swords, fled and pursued, attacked and retired, and, in
short, discovered the best military discipline I ever beheld.
The parallel stick secured them and their horses from falling
o#er the stage; and the emperor was so much delighted, that
ne ordered this entertainment to be repeated several days,
and it was my good fortune that no ill accident happened in
20 Gulliver's voyage
these entertainments; only once a fiery horse, that belonged
to one of the captains, pawing with his hoof, struck a hole
in my handkerchief, and his foot slipping, he overthrew his
rider and himself; but I immediately relieved them both, and,
covering the hole with one hand/1 set down the troops with
the other, in the same manner I took them up.
Two days after this adventure, the Emperor, having order-
ed that part of his army which quarters in and about the me-
tropolis, to be in readiness, took a fancy of diverting himself
in a very sin gular manner. He desired I would stand like a
Colossus, with my legs as far asunder as I conveniently could.
He then commanded his general to draw up the troops in
close order, and march them under me twenty-four abreast,
and the horse by sixteen, with drums beating, colours flying,
and pikes advanced. This body consisted of three thousand
foot and a thousand horse.
I had sent so many petitions for my liberty, that his ma-
jesty at last granted my request, but upon certain conditions,
drawn up by the chief secretary, which I solemnly agreed to.
These articles were brought to me by Skyresh Bolgolam, the
admiral of the realm, who was pleased, without any provoca-
tion, to be my mortal enemy, attended by several persons of
distinction. After they were read, I was demanded to swear
to their performance in the manner of my own country, and
then in the method prescribed by their laws; which was, to
hold my right foot in my left hand, and to place the middle-
finger of my right hand on the crown of my head, and my
i.humb on the tip of my right ear. But because the reader
may be curious to have some idea of the style and manner of
expression peculiar to that people, as well as to know the ar-
ticles upon which I recovered my liberty, I have made a trans-
lation of the whole instrument, word for word, as near as I
was able, which I here offer to the public:
« Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Molly Ully
Guc, most mighty emperor of Lillipul, delight and terror of
to LiLLipxrr. 21
the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand bhistrugt
(about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of
the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of
men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head
strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the
earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable
as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: His
most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, ltael7
arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles,
which by solemn oath he shall be obliged to perform :—
"1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-
minions, without our license.
"2d, He shall not presume to come into our metropolis
without our express order; at which time the inhabitants
shall have two hours' warning to keep within doors.
"3d, As he walks the said roads, he shall take the utmost
care not to trample upon the bodies of any of our loving sub-
jects, their horses, or carriages, nor take any of our subjects
into his hands without their own consent.
"4th, If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the
man-mountain shall be obliged to carry, in his pocket, the
messenger and horse a six-days' journey, once in every moon,
and return the said messenger back (if so required) safe to
our imperial presence.
"5th, He shall be our ally against our enemies in the
island of Blefuscu, and do his utmost to destroy their fleet,
which is now preparing to invade us.
"6th, That the said man-mountain shall, at his time of
leasure, be aiding and assisting to our workmen, in helping
to raise certain great stones towards covering the wall of the
principal park, and our other royal buildings.
"Lastly, That, upon his solemn oath to observe all the
abovfarticles, the said man-mountain shall have a daily al-
lowance of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724
of our subjects, with free access to our royal person, and
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other marks of our favor. Given at our palace at Belfaborac,
the twelfth day of the ninety-first moon of our reign."
I swore and subscribed to these articles with great cheer-
fulness and content, although some of them were not so
honorable as I could have wished; whereupon my chains
were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty, the
emperor himself, in person, doing me the honor of being
present at the whole ceremony.
CHAPTER IV.
Mildendo, the metropolis of Lilliput, described, together with the Empe-
ror's palace. A conversation between Gulliver and a principal secre-
tary, concerning the affairs of that Empire. Gulliver offers to serve the
Emperor in his wars.
The first request I made, after I had obtained my liberty,
was, that I might have license to see Mildendo, the metropo-
lis. The wall which encompassed it is two feet and a half
high, and at least eleven inches broad, so that a coach and
horses may be driven very safely round it; and it is flanked
With strong towers at ten feet distance I stepped over the
great western gate, and passed very gently and sideling
through the two principal streets only in my short waistcoat,
for fear of damaging the roofs and eaves of the houses with
the skirts of my coat. The garret-windows and tops of
houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all
my travels I had not seen a more populous place. The city
is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred
feet long. The two great streets, which run across and di-
vided it into four quarters, are five feet wide. The lanes
and alleys, which I could not enter, but only viewed them as
I passed, are from twelve to eighteen inches. The town is
capable of holding five hundred thousand souls : the houses
are from three to five stories high: the shops and marlcefc*
Well provided.
TO LILLIPUT.
23
The emperor's palace is in the centre of the city where
the two great streets meet. It is enclosed by a wall of two
feet high, and twenty feet distance from the buildings. The
outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two
other courts; in the inmost are the royal apartments, which
I was very desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult;
for the great gates, from one square into another, were but
eighteen inches high and seven inches wide. However, I
made a shift, by very careful stepping, to get over into the
inmost court; and lying down upon my side, I applied my
face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left

open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apart-
ments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and
the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief
attendants about them. Her imperial majesty was pleased
to smile very graciously upon me, and gave me out of the
window her hand to kiss.
One morning, about a fortnight after I had obtained my
24 gulliver's voyage
liberty, Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, came
to my house attended only by one servant. He ordered his
coach to wait at a distance, and desired I would give him an
hour's audience; which I readily consented to.
He then informed me that they were threatened with a
sudden invasion from the island of Blefuscu, another great
empire of the universe, almost as large and powerful as that
of Lilliput. "The quarrel," he proceeded, "began upon the
following occasion: It is allowed on all hands, that the pri-
mitive way of breaking eggs was upon the larger end; but
his present majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going
to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient prac-
tice, happened to cut one of his fingers; whereupon the
emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his
subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of
their eggs. The people so highly resented this law, that
there have been six rebellions raised on that account; where-
in one emperor lost his life and another his crown. These
civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs
of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always
fled for refuge to that empire. It is computed that eleven
thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather
than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Now,
the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the empe-
ror of Blefuseu's court, and so much private assistance and
encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody
war has been carried on between the two empires for six-
and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time
we have suffered heavy losses, but the damage received by
the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
However, they have now equipped a numerous fleet, and
are just preparing to make a descent upon us; and his im-
perial majesty, placing great confidence in your valour and
strength, has commanded me to lay this account of his affairs
before you."
TO LILLIPUT. 25
I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the
emperor; and to let him know, « that I thought it would not
become me, who was a foreigner, to interfere with parties!
but 1 was ready, with the hazard of my life, to defend his
person and state against all invaders."
CHAPTER 7.
Gullivfcr, by an evtraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion* A high
title of honour is conferred upon him. Ambassadors arrive from the Em~
Deror of Blefuscu, and sue for peace. The Emperor's apartments on
fire by accident; Gulliver instrumental in saving the rest of the palace.
The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north-
east of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel of
eight hundred yards wide. I had not yet seen it, but when
I was told it was only, even at high water, in the middle,
about seventy glumgluffs deep (between five or six feet,} I
provided myself with proper hooks and tackling, and about
half an hour before high water I waded with what haste I
could, and swam in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt
the ground. I arrived at the fleet in less than half an hour.
The enemy was so frightened when they saw me, that they
leapt out of their ships, and swam to shore, where there could
not be fewer than thirty thousand souls; I then took my
tackling, and fastening a hook to the hole at the prow of each,
I tied all the cords together at the end. While I was thus
employed, the enemy discharged several thousand arrows,
which gave me much disturbance in my work. My greatest
apprehension was for mine eyes; but I kept, among othetf
little necessaries, a pair of spectacles in a private pocket,
which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor*!
searches. These I took out, and fastened as strongly as I
could to protect my eyes, and thus armed, went on boldly
3
26 Gulliver's voyage
with my work. I had now fastened all the hooks, and taking
the knot in my hand, began to pull j and with great ease
drew fifty of tfce enemy's largest men-of-war after me.
The Blefuscudians were at first confounded with astonish-
ment; but when they perceived the whole fleet moving in
order, anJ saw me pulling at the end, they set up a loud
scream of grief and despair. When I had got out of danger,
I stopped awhile to pick out the arrows that stuck in my
hands and face, and rubbed on some of the same ointment
that was given me at my first arrival. I then took off my
spectacles, and waiting about an hour, till the tide was a
little fallen, I waded through the middle with my cargo, and
arrived safe at the royal port of Lilliput.
The emperor received me at my landing with all possible
encomiums, and created me a nardac upon the spot, which is
the highest title of honour among them. His majesty then
proposed that I should assist him still further in destroying
the power of his enemies; but to this I would not assent, and
the emperor 1 could see was much chagrined at my refusal.
About three weeks after this exploit there arrived a solemn
embassy from Blefuscu, with humble offers of a peace, which
was soon concluded, upon conditions very advantageous to
our emperor. When the treaty was finished, wherein I did
them several good offices by the credit I now had at court,
the ambassadors, who were privately told how much I had
been their friend, made me a visit in form. They began with
many compliments upon my valour and generosity, and invited
me to that kingdom in the emperor their master's name.
Accordingly, the next time I had the honour to see our em-
peror, I desired his general license to wait on the Blefuscu-
dian monarch, which he was pleased to grant me, bat, as I
could perceive, in a very cold manner.
It was not long after this interview that T had an opportu-
TO LILLIFTJT.
27
mty of doing his majesty, at least as I then thought, a most
signal service. I was alarmed at midnight with the cries of
many hundred people at my door. 1 heard the word
burglum repeated incessantly; several of the emperor's
court, making their way through the crowd, entreated me to
come immediately to the palace, where her imperial Majes-
ty's apartment was on fire. I got up in an instant; and or-
ders being given to clear the way before me, and it being
likewise a moonlight night, I made a shift to get to the palace

without trampling on any of the people. I found they had
already applied ladders to the walls of the apartment, and
were well provided with buckets, but the water was at some
distance. These buckets were about the size of a large
thimble, and the poor people supplied me with them as fast
as they could; but the flame was so violent that they did
28 gullivea's voyage
little good. The case seemed wholly desperate and deplora-
ble; and this magnificent palace would have infallibly been
burnt down to the ground, if, by a presence of mind unusual
to me, I had not suddenly thought of an expedient. I had,
the evening before, drank plentifully of a most delicious
wine called glimigrim; and, by the luckiest chance in the
world, I had not discharged myself of any part of it; and this
I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper
places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly extinguish
ed, and the rest of the noble pile which had cost so many
ages in erecting, preserved from destruction,
CHAPTER VL
Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their laws and customs, Gulliver's w&y of
living in that country.
The common size of the natives is somewhat under six
inches h^h, so there is an exact proportion in all other ani-
mals, as well as plants and trees; for instance, the tallest
horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height,
the sheep an inch and a half, more or less; their geese about
the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several gradations dowr?
wards, till you c«me to the smallest, which, to my sight, were
almost invisible j but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lil-
liputians to all objects proper for their viewj they see with
great exactness, but at no great distance.
There are some laws and customs in this empire very pe-
culiar: they look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft,
and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they
allege, that care and vigilance/with a very common under-
standing, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but hon-
esty has no fence against superior cunning.
TO LILLIPUT. 29
Ingratitude is among them a capital crime, as we read it
to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus;
that whoever makes ill return to his benefactor must needs
be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from whom he
has received no obligation, and therefore such a man is not
fit to live. The old and diseased among them are supported
by hospitals; for begging is a trade unknown in this empire.
And here it may perhaps divert the curious reader, to give
some account of my domestics, and my manner of living in
this country, during a residence of nine months and thirteen,
days. Having a head mechanically turned, and being like-
wise forced by necessity, I had made for myself a table a«d
chair convenient enough out of the largest trees in the royal
park. Two hundred sempstresses were employed to make
me shirts, and linen for my bed and table, all of the strongest
and coarsest kind they could get; which, however, they were
forced to quilt together in several folds, for the thickest was
some degrees finer than lawn. Three hundred tailors were
employed in the same manner to make me clothes; but they
had another contrivance for taking my measure. I kneeled
down, and they raised a ladder from the ground to my neck 5
upon this ladder one of them mounted, and let fall a plumb-
line from my collar to the floor, which just answered the
length of my coat; but my waist and arms I measured myself.
I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals, in little
convenient huts built about my house, where they and their
families lived, and prepared me two dishes apiece. I took
up twenty waiters in my hand, and placed them on the table;
a hundred more attended below on the ground, some with
dishes of meat, and some with barrels of wine, and other li-
quors slung on their shoulders; all which the waiters above
drew up as I wanted in a very ingenious manner by certain
cords, as we draw the bucket up out of a well in Europe.
3*
so
Gulliver's voyage
A dish of their meat was a good mouthful, and a barrel of
their liquor a reasonable draught. Their mutton yields to
ours, but their beef is excellent. I have had a sirloin so large,
that I have been forced to make three bites of it; but this
is rare. My servants were astonished to see me eat, bones
and all, as in our country we do the leg of a lark. Their
geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess
they far exceed ours. Of their smaller fowl I could take up
twenty or thirty at the end of my knife.
One day his imperial Majesty desired "that himself and
his royal consort, with the young princes of the blood of both
sexes, might have the happiness," as he was pleased to call
it, " of dining with me." They came accordingly, and I
placed them in chairs of state upon my table, just over

against me, with their guards about them. Flimnap, the
lord-high-treasurer, attended there likewise, with his white
fitaff-, and I observed he often looked on me with a sour
countenance. That minister had always been my secret
TO LILLIPTJT. 31
enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was
usual to the moroseness of his nature. He represented to
the emperor "the low condition of his treasury; that he was
forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer-
bills would not circulate under nine per cent, below par;
that I had cost his Majesty above a million and half of
sprugs (their greatest gold coin, about the bigness of a span-
gle); and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the
emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me."
CHAPTER VII.
Gulliver being informed of a design to accuse him of high treason, makes
his escape to Blefuscu. His reception there.
When I was just preparing to pay my attendance on the
emperor of Blefuscu, a considerable person at court (to whom
I had been very serviceable at a time when he lay under the
highest displeasure of his imperial Majesty,) came to my
house very privately at night, in a close chair, and without
sending his name, desired admittance. The chairman were
dismissed; I put the chair with his lordship in it, into my
coat-pocket; and giving orders to a trusty servant to say I
was indisposed and gone to sleep, I fastened the door of my
house, placed the chair on the table, according to my custom,
and sat down by it. After the common salutations were
over, observing his lordship's countenance full of concern,
and inquiring into the reason, he « desired I would hear him
with patience in a mattter that highly concerned my honour
and my life." His speech was to the following effect, for I
took notes of it as soon as he left me :—
« You are to know," said he, "that several committees oj
council have been lately called, in the most private manner,
on your account, and it is but two days since his majesty
came to a full resolution.
52 gulliver's voyage
« You are very sensible that Skywsh Bolgolam (galbet, or
high-admiral), has been your mortal enemy almost ever since
your arrival. His original reasons I know not; but his
hatred is increased since your great success against Blefus-
eu, by which his glory as admiral is much obscured. This
lord, in consort with Flimnap the high-treasurer, whose enmi-
ty to you is notorious on account of some old grudge, Limtoc
the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand
justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment against you
for treason and other capital crimes."
This preface made me so impatient, being conscious of my
own. merits and innocence, that I was going to interrupt him,
when he entreated me to be silent, and thus proceeded:
"Out of gratitude for the favours you have done me, I pro-
cured information of the whole proceedings, and a copy of the
articles; wherein I venture my head for your service.'*
His lordship then put into my hands a copy of the bill ot
impeachment, which contained a number of separate charges,
all of which were very frivolous and unfounded. The prin-
cipal charge related to the assistance I had given at the fire,
which was declared to have been done from the most traitor-
ous malice; and the offence, 2 was iaformed, was one which
incurred the highest penalties of tki law. My refusals to
concur with his majesty in destroying the power of Blefuscu,
was next dwelt upon as a grievous act of rebellion; also my
accepting the courtesies of the Blefuscudian ambassadors, &c.
«In the several debates upon this impeachment," contin-
ued his lordship,«it must be confessed that his majesty stren-
uously endeavoured to extenuate your crimes. On the other
hand, the treasurer and admiral insisted that you should be
put to the most painful and ignominious death. It was at last
agreed on as a middle course, by a great majority of the coun-
cil, that instead of a capital punishment, you should be con-
demned to the loss of your eyes.
«In three days your friend the secretary will be directed
TO LILLIPUT. 33
to come to your house, and read before you the articles of im-
peachment j and then to signify the great lenity and favour
his majesty and council, in the mitigated sentence awarded
against you, which his majesty does not question you will
gratefully and humbly submit to; and twenty of his majesty's
surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well per-
formed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the
balls of your eyes as you lie on the ground."
His lordship then left me, and I remained alone, under
many doubts and perplexities of mind.
At last I took my resolution. Recollecting I had his im-
perial majesty's license to pay my attendance upon the em-
peror of Blefuscu, I seized a large man-of-war, tied a cable
to the prow, and, lifting up the anchors, I stripped myself,
put my clothes (together with my coverlet, which I carried
under my arm), into the vessel, and, drawing it after me, be.
tween wading and swimming, arrived at the royal port of
Blefuscu, where the people had long expected me.
I shall not trouble the reader with a particular account of
my reception at this court, which was suitable to the gene-
rosity of so great a prince, nor of the difficulties I was in for
want of a house and bed, being forced to lie on the ground,
wrapped up in my coverlet.
CHAPTER VIIL
Gulliver, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu, and, after
some difficulties, returns safe to his native country.
Three days after my arrival, walking about. I observed,
about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a
boat overturned. I pulled off my shoes and stockings, and,
wading two or three hundred yards, I found the object to ap-
proach nearer by force of the tide, and then plainly saw it to
be a boat, which I supposed might by some tempest have been
driven from a ship.
34 GULLIVER'S VOYAGE
1 shall not enter into a detail of the difficulties I was under,
by the help of certain paddles, which cost m-e ten days making,
to get my boat to the royal port of Blefuseu, where a mighty
concourse of people appeared upon my arrival, full of wonder
at the sight of so prodigious a vessel. I told the emperor
«that my good fortune had thrown this boat in my way, to
carry me to some place whence I might return to my native
country, and begged his majesty's orders for getting materials
to fit it up, together with his license to depart;" which, after
some kind expostulations, he was pleased to grant.
He offered me at the same time his gracious protection, if
I would continue in his service; wherein, although I believed
him sincere, yet I resolved never more to put my confidence
in princes or ministers, where I could possibly avoid it; 1
therefore politely declined the honour. Neither did I find the
emperor at all displeased; and I discovered, by a certain ac-
cident, that he was very glad of my resolution, and so were
most of his ministers.
These considerations movod me to hasten my departure
somewhat sooner then I intended; to which the court, impa-
tient to have me away, very readily contributed. Five hun-
dred workmen were employed to make two sails to my boat,
according to my directions, by quilting thirteen folds of their
Strongest linen together. I was at the pains of making ropes
and cables, by twisting ten, twenty, or thirty of the thickest
and strongest of theirs. A great stone that I happened to
find, after a long search by the sea-shore, served me for an
anchor. I had the tallow of three hundred cows for greasing
my boat and other uses. I was at incredible pains in cutting
down some of the largest timber-trees for oars and masts j
wherein I was, however, much assisted by his majesty's ship-
carpenters, who helped me in smoothing them, after I had
done the rough work.
In about a month, when all was prepared, I sent to receive
TO LILLIPUT, 35
his majesty's commands, and to take my leave. The emperor
and royal family came out of the palace j I lay down on my
face to kiss his hand, which he very graciously gave me; so
did the empress and young princes of the blood. His majesty
presented me with fifty purses of two hundred sprugs apiece,
together with his picture at full length, which I immediately
prut into one of my gloves, to keep it from being hurt.
I stored the boat with the carcasses of a hundred oxen and
three hundred sheep, with bread and drink proportionable,
and as much meat ready dressed as four hundred cooks could
provide. I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with
as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own
country, and propagate the breed ; and to feed them on board,
I had a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn. I would
gladly have taken a dozen of the natives, but this was a thing
the emperor would by no means permit; and, besides a dili-
gent search into my pockets, his majesty engaged my honour
« not to carry away any of his subjects, although with their
own consent and desire."
Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I
set sail on the twenty-fourth day of September, 1701, at six
in the morning. My intention was to reach, if possible, one
of those islands which I had reason to believe lay to the north-
east of Van Diemen's Land. 1 discovered nothing all that
day; but upon the next, about three in the afternoon, when
I had by my computation made twenty-four leagues from Ble-
fuscu, I descried a sail steering to the south-east: my course
was due east. I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I
found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened. I made all
the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me; then hung
out her ancient and discharged a gun.
It is not easy to express the joy I was in upon the unex-
pected hope of once more seeing my beloved country and the
dear friends I had left in it. The ship slackened her sails,
3$ guixiver's voyage to lilliput.
and I came up with her between five and six in the evening
September 26. My heart leaped within me to see her
English colours. The vessel was an English merchantman,
returning from Japan by the North and South Seas. On re-
lating my adventures, which I did in a few words, the captain
thought I was raving, and that the dangers I had undergone
had disturbed my head; whereupon I took my black cattle
and sheep out of my pocket, which, after great astonishment,
clearly convinced him of my veracity. I then showed him
the gold given me by the emperor of Blefuscu, together with
his majesty's picture at full length, and some other rarities of
that country, and gave him two purses ofsprugs.
I shall not trouble the reader with a particular account of
this voyage, which was very prosperous for the most part.
We arrived in the Downs on the 13th of April 1702. My
cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling-
green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made
them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the con-
trary : neither could I possibly have preserved them in so long
a voyage, if the captain had not allowed me some of his best
biscuit, which, rubbed to powder, and mingled with water,
was their constant food. The short time 1 continued in
England I made a considerable profit by showing my cattle
to many persons of quality and others, and before I began my
second voyage, I sold them for six hundred pounds. I staid
"but two months at home, and after taking leave of my friends,
I went on board the Adventure, a merchant-ship of three
hundred tons, bound for Surat, Captain John Nicholas, of
Liverpool, commander. But my account of this voyage must
be referred to the second part of my travels*
JACK
THE
GIANT KILLER.

There lived in Cornwall a bold lad whose
name was Jack; and he took delight in hearing
or reading of conjurers, giants, and fairies. On
fit. Michael's Mount lived a huge giant, eighteen
feet high, and nine feet round; and his face
frightened all who beheld it. His abode was a
cavern on the top of the mountain, and he used
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JACK THE GIANT KILLER.
to wade over to the main land in search of prey;
when he would throw half a dozen oxen upon his
back, and tie three times as many sheep and pigs
round his middle, and then return. Jack no
sonner knew this than he determined to kill him.
Our hero took a horn, a shovel, a pick-axe, his
armour, and a dark lantern, and one dark winter's
evening he went to the mount. There he dug a
pit twenty-two feet deep, and twenty broad: he
covered the top over to make it look like solid
ground. He blew his horn with all his might,
which awoke the giant, and he came out of his
den crying out with a voice like thunder, "You
villain, I'll broil you for my breakfast." The
sound had not ceased before he fell into the pit,
and at the same instant Jack's pick-axe entered
the monster's forehead.
Another giant, called Blunderbore, hearing of
Jack's exploit, vowed to be revenged on him.
This giant kept an enchanted castle in a thick
wood; and some time after Jack passing through
the same wood, and being weary he lay down and
went to sleep. The giant disco^perin^ Jack, car-
ried him to his castle, and locked him up in a
(arge room, the floor of which was covered with
the bones of men and women. Soon after the
giant went to invite his brother to take a meal off
his flesh; and shortly Jack saw the blood-thirsty
monster approaching. Jack perceiving a strong
cord, he took courage, and making a slip-knot at
each end, he threw them over their heads, and
then pulled till they were choked. Jack next
contrived to get through the bars of the window,
and then slid down one of the ropes, after which
3
JACK THE GIANT KILLER.
he took a bunch of keys from the belt of Blun-
derbore, and went on his journey.
At length Jack came to a handsome house.
He knocked at the door, when there came forth
a Welch giant. Jack said he was a traveller, on

which the giant led him into a room where there
was a good bed. Jack took off his clothes, but
weary he could not sleep. Soon after he heard
the giant saying to himself.
« Though here you lodge with me this night,
You shall not see the morning light;
My club shall dash your brains out quite 5
"Say you so ? but I hope to prove as cunning
as you are."* Then getting out of bed, he found
a large piece of wood. He laid it in the bed, and
then hid himself. The giant entered about mid-
night, and with his bludgeon struck many blows
on the bed, and then he went back, thinking he
had broken all Jack's bones.
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Early in the morning Jack walked into the giant's
room to thank him for his lodging. The giant
started when he saw him, and began to stammer
out, " O ! dear me ! is it you? Pray how did you
sleep last night? Did you hear or see any thing
in the dead of the night." "Nothing worth

speaking of; a rat gave me three or four slaps
with his tail, and disturbed me a little; but I
soon went to sleep again."
The giant wondered more and more at this;
yet he did not answer a word, bnt went to bring
two great bowls of hasty-pudding for their break-
fast. Jack wanted to make the giant believe that
he could eat as much as himself; so he contrived
to button a leathern bag inside his coat, and slipt
the hasty-pudding into this bag, while he seemed
to put it into his mouth. When breakfast was
over he said to the giant, "Now I will show you
a fine trick. I can cure all sorts of wounds with
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a touch: I could cut off my head in one minute,
and the next put it sound again on my shoulders.
You shall see an example/' He then ripped up
the bag, and out tumbled the pudding. "Ods
splutter hur nails/' cried the Welch giant, who

was ashamed to be out done, "hur can do that
hurself;" so he snatched up the knife, plunged it
into his own stomach, and in a moment dropped
down dead.
Jack then proceeded on his journey, till arriving
at the foot of a high mountain, he knocked at the
door of a lonely house, when an old man let him
In. When Jack was seated, the hermit thus ad-
dressed him: "My son, on the top of this moun-
tain is an enchanted castle, kept by giant Galli-
gantus and a vile magician. I lament the fate of
a duke's daughter, whom they seized as she was
walking in her father's garden and brought hith-
er transformed into a deer."
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Jack promised at the risk of his life he would
break the enchantment; and after a sound sleep,
he rose early and got ready for the attempt.
When he had climbed to the top of the moun-
tain, he saw two fiery griffins, but he passed be-
tween them without harm, for they could not see
him. On the castle gate he found a golden trum-
pet, under which were written these lines:
"Whoever can this trumpet blow,
Shall cause the giant's overthrow,"

As soon as Jack had read this, he seized the
trumpet and blew a shrill blast, which made the
castle itself tremble. The giant and the conjurer
now knew that their wicked course was at an
end. Jack soon killed the giant, and the magi-
cian was then carried away by a whirlwind; and
every knight and fine lady, who had been changed
into birds and beasts, returned to their proper
shapes, and the castle vanished away like smoke.
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Jack's fame now spread through the whole
country, and shortly, at the king's desire, the
duske gave him his daughter, in marriage, to the
joy of all his kingdom.
THE END.

THE
STORY
or
DIAMONDS AND TOADS.
There was once upon a time a widow
who had two daughters. The eldest was
so extremely like her, both in temper and
person, that whoever saw the one saw the
other also; they were both so very proud
and disagreeable that nobody could live
with them. The youngest, who was the
:exact picture of her father, in good-nature
and sweetness of manner, was also the most
beautiful creature ever seen. As it is na-
tural to love those who resemble us, the
mother doted upon the eldest, and no less
hated the youngest. wShe made her eat in
the kitchen, arid work all the day with the
servants. Among other things, the poor
child was obliged to go twice a day to draw
water at a fountain more than a mile and a
half distant from the house, and bring home
a large pitcher filled with it, as well as she
could. One day, when she was at the
fountain, a poor woman came up to her,
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and asked her to let her drink. € That-1
will. Goody, most readily,' said the sweet-
tempered creature; and washing out the
pitcher, she filled it at the clearest part of
the fountain, and held it to the old woman's
mouth that she might drink the more easily.
The old woman having drunk, said to her:
'Since you are so pretty, so kind, and so

obliging, my dear, I will bestow on you a
gift, (for it was a fairy in disguise who had
asked her to drink, just to see how far the
little girl's good-nature would go.) I give
you,' continued she, 'that whenever you
speak there shall come out of your mouth
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either arose or a diamond/ When the sweet
girl got home,her mother began to scold her
for staying so long at the fountain. 'I ask
your pardon, mamma/ said she, 'for not
being at home sooner;' and as she pro-
nounced these words, there fell from her
lips two roses, two pearls, and two large
diamonds.
'What do I see!' cried the mother, quite
astonished: 'as sure as any thing she drops
diamonds and pearls from her mouth in
speaking! My child, how happens this V
(This was the first time she had ever call-
ed her 'My child.') The poor girl told
her mother all that had befallen her at the
fountain, dropping pearls and diamonds
from her mouth all the time she was speak-
ing. 'Upon my word/ said her mother,
* this is very lucky, truly: I will send my
darling thither directly. Fanny! Fanny!
look! do you see what falls from the mouth
of your sister when she speaks? Should
you not like to have the same gift bestowed
on you? Well, you have only to go to the
fountain, and when a poor woman asks you
to let her drink, to grant her request in the
most civil manner/—< Vastly pretty, truly,
it would be to see me go and draw water
at the fountain! Not I, indeed/ replied the
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proud creature. c But I insist on your going,
and this very moment too,' answered her
mother. The pert hussy accordingly set
out, taking with her the best silver tankard
in the house, and grumbling all the way as
she went. She had no sooner reached the
fountain, than a lady most magnificently
dressed came out of a wood just by, and
asked her to let her drink. (This was the
very fairy who had bestowed the rich gift
on the youngest sister, and had now taken
the dress and manners of a princess, to see
how far the insolent airs of the haughty
creature would go.) 'Am 1 come here/
said the ill bred minx, 'to draw water for
you? 0 yes, the best silver tankard in the
house was brought here on purpose for your
ladyship, I suppose! However, you may
drink out of it if you have a fancy/—' You
are not very obliging/ replied the fairy,
without putting herself in a passion: 'but
since you have behaved with so little civili-
ty, I give you for a gift, that at every word
^ou speak there shall come out of your
mouth either a toad or a viper.'
As soon as her mother perceived her
coming home, she called out,' Well, daugh-
ter ¥—< Well, mother,' answered the pert
aussy. And as she spoke, two toads, and
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two vipers dropped from her mouth upon
the ground. * Oh, mercy!' cried the mo-
ther, ' what do I see? It is the jade thy sis-
ter who is the cause of all this! But she
shall pay for it, I warrant her,' and instant-
ly went to look for her that she might beat

her. The poor innocent ran away as fast
as she could, and reached a neighboring
forest. The king's son who had been hunt-
ing, happened to meet her, and, observing
how very beautiful she was, asked her what
she was doing all alone in the forest, and
why she cried? s Alas!' said she, sobbing
as if her heart would break, 'my mother,
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sir, has turned me out of doors/ The king's
son, seeing pearls and diamonds fall from
her mouth at every word she spoke, de-
sired her to tell him the reason of such a
wonder. The good girl accordingly rela-
ted to him all that had befallen her at the
fountain. The prince was so charmed with

her beauty and innocence, that he asked
her to become his wife; and as the gift she
possessed was worth more than the largest
marriage portion, he conducted her to the
palace of the king his father, and married
her immediately. As for her sister, she
grew even perter than before, and behaved
in all respects so very ill, that her own mo
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tfaer was obliged to turn her out of doors;
and the miserable creature, after wander-
ing a great way, and vainly trying to pre-
vail upon some one to give her food and
shelter, went into a wood and there died of
grief and hunger, unlamented by any one.
THE END.
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