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10 - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, a description of the farmer's daughter. The author
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  Speaker 1: carried to a market town and then to the metropolis.
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  Speaker 1: The particulars of his journey. My mistress had a daughter
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  Speaker 1: of nine years old, a child of towardly parts for
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  Speaker 1: her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skillful in
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  Speaker 1: dressing her baby. Her mother and she contrived to fit
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  Speaker 1: up the baby's cradle for me against night. The cradle
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  Speaker 1: was put into a small drawer of a cabinet, and
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  Speaker 1: the drawer placed upon a hanging shelf for fear of
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  Speaker 1: the rats. This was my bed all the time I
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  Speaker 1: stayed with those people, though made more convenient by degrees
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  Speaker 1: as I began to learn their language and make my
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  Speaker 1: wants known. This young girl was so handy that after
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  Speaker 1: I had once or twice pulled off my clothes before her,
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  Speaker 1: she was able to dress and undress me, though I
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  Speaker 1: never gave her that trouble when she would let me
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  Speaker 1: do either myself. She made me seven shirts and some
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  Speaker 1: other linen of as fine cloth as could be got,
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  Speaker 1: which indeed was coarser than sackcloth, and these she constantly
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  Speaker 1: washed for me with her own hands. She was likewise
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  Speaker 1: my schoolmistress to teach me the language. When I pointed
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  Speaker 1: to anything, she told me the name of it in
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  Speaker 1: her own tongue, so that in a few days I
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  Speaker 1: was able to call for whatever I had a mind to.
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  Speaker 1: She was very good natured and not above forty feet high.
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  Speaker 1: Being little for her age, she gave me the name
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  Speaker 1: of Grildrigg, which the family took up and afterwards the
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  Speaker 1: whole kingdom. The word imports what the Latins called nanunculus,
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  Speaker 1: the Italians Homo keel tino, and the English Manikin to her.
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  Speaker 1: I chiefly owe my preservation in that country. We never
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  Speaker 1: parted while I was there. I called her my glumdale
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  Speaker 1: glitch or little nurse, and should be guilty of great
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  Speaker 1: ingratitude if I admitted this honor mention of her care
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  Speaker 1: and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay
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  Speaker 1: in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of
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  Speaker 1: being the innocent but an happy instrument of a disgrace,
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  Speaker 1: as I have too much reason to fear. It now
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  Speaker 1: began to be known and talked of in the neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: that my master had found a strange animal in the field,
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  Speaker 1: about the bigness of a splack nook, but exactly shaped
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  Speaker 1: in every part like a human creature, which it likewise
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  Speaker 1: imitated in all its actions, seemed to speak in a
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  Speaker 1: little language of its own, had already learned several words
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  Speaker 1: of theirs. When erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle,
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  Speaker 1: would come when it was called, do whatever it was bid.
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  Speaker 1: Had the finest limbs in the world, and a complexion
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  Speaker 1: fairer than a nobleman's daughter of three years old. Another farmer,
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  Speaker 1: who lived hard by and was a particular friend of
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  Speaker 1: my master, came on a visit on purpose to inquire
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  Speaker 1: into the truth of this story. I was immediately produced
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  Speaker 1: and placed upon a table, where I walked as I
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  Speaker 1: was commanded, drew my hanger, put it up again, made
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  Speaker 1: my reverence to my master's guest, asked him in his
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  Speaker 1: own language how he did, and told him he was welcome,
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  Speaker 1: Just as my little nurse had instructed me. This man,
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  Speaker 1: who was old and incited, put on his spectacles to
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  Speaker 1: behold me better, at which I could not forbear, laughing
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  Speaker 1: very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon
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  Speaker 1: shining into a chamber at two windows. Our people who
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  Speaker 1: discovered the cause of my mirth bore my company in laughing,
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  Speaker 1: at which the old fellow was full enough to be
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  Speaker 1: angry and out of countenance. He had the character of
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  Speaker 1: a great miser, and to my misfortune, he well deserved
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  Speaker 1: it by the cursed advice he gave my master to
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  Speaker 1: show me as a sight upon a market day in
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  Speaker 1: the next town, which was half an hour's riding and
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  Speaker 1: two and twenty miles from our house. I guessed there
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  Speaker 1: was some mischief when I observed my master and his
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  Speaker 1: friend whispering together, sometimes pointing at me, and my fears
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  Speaker 1: made me fancy that I overheard and understood some of
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  Speaker 1: their words. But the next morning, Glumdalklitch, my little nurse,
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  Speaker 1: told me the whole matter, which she had cunningly picked
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  Speaker 1: out from her mother. The poor girl laid me on
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  Speaker 1: her bosom and fell a weeping with shame and grief.
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  Speaker 1: She apprehended some mischief would happen to me from rude,
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  Speaker 1: vulgar folks, who might squeeze me to death or break
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  Speaker 1: one of my limbs by taking me in their hands.
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  Speaker 1: She had also observed how modest I was in my nature,
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  Speaker 1: how nicely I regarded my honor, and what an indignity,
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  Speaker 1: I should conceive it to be exposed for money, as
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  Speaker 1: a public spectacle to the meanest of the people. She
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  Speaker 1: said to her Papa and Mamma had promised that Grildric
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  Speaker 1: should be hers, but now she found they meant to
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  Speaker 1: serve her as they did last year when they pretended
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  Speaker 1: to give her a lamb, and yet as soon as
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  Speaker 1: it was fact sold it to a butcher. For my
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  Speaker 1: own part, I may truly affirm that I was less
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  Speaker 1: concerned than my nurse. I had a strong hope which
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  Speaker 1: never left me, that I should one day recover my liberty,
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  Speaker 1: And as to the ignominy of being carried about for
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  Speaker 1: a monster, I considered myself to be a perfect stranger
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  Speaker 1: in the country, and that such a misfortune could never
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  Speaker 1: be charged upon me as a reproach, if ever I
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  Speaker 1: should return to England, since the King of Great Britain himself,
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  Speaker 1: in my condition, must have undergone the same distress. My master,
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  Speaker 1: pursuant to the advice of his friend, carried me in
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  Speaker 1: a box the next market day to the neighboring town,
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  Speaker 1: and took along with him his little daughter, my nurse,
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  Speaker 1: upon a pillion behind him. The box was close on
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  Speaker 1: every side, with a little door for me to go
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  Speaker 1: in and out, and a few gibnet holes to let
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  Speaker 1: in air. The girl had been so careful as to
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  Speaker 1: put the quilt of her baby's bed into it for
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  Speaker 1: me to lie down on it. However, I was terribly
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  Speaker 1: shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it was but
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  Speaker 1: of half an hour, for the horse went about forty
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  Speaker 1: feet at every step, and trotted so high that the
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  Speaker 1: agitation was equal to the rising and falling of a
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  Speaker 1: ship in a great storm, but much more frequent. Our
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  Speaker 1: journey was somewhat farther than from London to Saint Alban's.
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  Speaker 1: My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent,
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  Speaker 1: and after consulting a while with the innkeeper and making
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  Speaker 1: some necessary preparations, he hired the goltrod or crier to
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  Speaker 1: give notice through the town of a strange creature to
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  Speaker 1: be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not
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  Speaker 1: so big as a spluck nock, an annual in that country,
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  Speaker 1: very finely shaped, about six feet long, and in every
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  Speaker 1: part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak
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  Speaker 1: several words, and before a hundred diverting tricks. I was
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  Speaker 1: placed upon a table in the largest room of the
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  Speaker 1: nar which might be near three hundred feet square. My
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  Speaker 1: little nur stood on a low stool close to the
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  Speaker 1: table to take care of me and direct what I
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  Speaker 1: should do. My master to avoid a crowd would suffer
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  Speaker 1: only thirty people at a time to see me. I
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  Speaker 1: walked about on the table as the girl commanded. She
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  Speaker 1: asked me questions as far as she knew. My understanding
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  Speaker 1: of the language reached, and I answered them as loud
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  Speaker 1: as I could. I turned about several times to the company,
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  Speaker 1: paid my humble respects, said they were welcome, and used
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  Speaker 1: some other speeches I had been taught. I took up
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  Speaker 1: a thimble filled with liqueur which Glumdalklitch had given me
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  Speaker 1: for a cup, and drank their health. I dropped my
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  Speaker 1: hanger and flourished with it after the manner of fences
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  Speaker 1: in England. My nurse gave me a part of a straw,
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  Speaker 1: which I exercised as a pike, having learnt the art
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  Speaker 1: in my youth. I was that day shown to twelve
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  Speaker 1: sets of company, and as often forced to act over
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  Speaker 1: again the same fopperies till I was half dead with
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  Speaker 1: weariness and vexation, for those who had seen me made
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  Speaker 1: such wonderful reports that the people were ready to break
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  Speaker 1: down the doors to come in. My master, for his
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  Speaker 1: own interest, would not suffer any one to touch me
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  Speaker 1: except my nurse, and to prevent danger, bengeres were set
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  Speaker 1: round the table at a distance as to put me
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  Speaker 1: out of everybody's reach. However, an unlucky schoolboy aimed a
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  Speaker 1: hazel nut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise it came with so much violence that it would
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  Speaker 1: have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost
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  Speaker 1: as large as the small pumpkin. But I had the
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  Speaker 1: satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten and turned
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  Speaker 1: out of the room. My master gave public notice that
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  Speaker 1: he would show me again the next market day, and
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  Speaker 1: in the meantime he prepared a covenant vehicle for me,
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  Speaker 1: which he had reason enough to do, for I was
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  Speaker 1: so tired with my first journey, and with entertaining company
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  Speaker 1: for eight hours together, that I could hardly stand upon
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  Speaker 1: my legs or speak a word. It was at least
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  Speaker 1: three days before I recovered my strength, and that I
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  Speaker 1: might have no rest at home all the neighboring gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: from a hundred miles round, hearing of my fame, came
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  Speaker 1: to see me. At my master's own house. There could
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  Speaker 1: not be fewer than thirty persons with their wives and children,
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  Speaker 1: for the country is very populous, and my master demanded
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  Speaker 1: the rate of a full room whenever he showed me
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  Speaker 1: at home, although it were only to a single family,
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  Speaker 1: so that for some time I had but little ease
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  Speaker 1: every day of the week except Wednesday, which is there sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: Although I were not carried to the town, my master,
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  Speaker 1: finding how profitable I was likely to be, resolved to
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  Speaker 1: carry me to the most considerable cities of the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Having therefore provided himself with all the things necessary for
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  Speaker 1: a long journey, and settled his affairs at home, he
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  Speaker 1: took leave of his wife, and upon the seventeenth of
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  Speaker 1: orbus Gust seventeen o three, about two months after my arrival,
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  Speaker 1: we set out for the metropolis, situated near the middle
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  Speaker 1: of that empire and about three thousand miles distance from
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  Speaker 1: our house. My master made his daughter, Glumdalklitch, ride behind him.
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  Speaker 1: She carried me on her lap in a box tied
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  Speaker 1: about her waist. The girl had lined it on all
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  Speaker 1: sides with the softest cloth she could get, well quilted underneath,
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  Speaker 1: furnished it with her baby's bed, provided me with linen
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  Speaker 1: and other necessaries, and made everything as convenient as she could.
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  Speaker 1: We had no other company but a boy of the house,
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  Speaker 1: who rode after us with the luggage. My master's design
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  Speaker 1: was to show me in all the towns by the way,
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  Speaker 1: and to step out of the road for fifty or
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  Speaker 1: a hundred miles to any village or person of qualities
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  Speaker 1: house where he might expect custom. We made easy journeys
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  Speaker 1: of not above seven or eight score miles a day
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  Speaker 1: for glumdalklitch on purpose to sept complained. She was tired
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  Speaker 1: with the trotting of the horse. She often took me
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  Speaker 1: out of my box at my own desire to give
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  Speaker 1: me air and show me the country, but always held
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  Speaker 1: me fast by a leading string, who passed over five
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  Speaker 1: or six rivers many degrees broader and deeper than the
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  Speaker 1: Nile or the Ganges. And there was hardly river let
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  Speaker 1: so small as the Thames. At London Bridge, we were
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  Speaker 1: ten weeks in our journey, and I was shown in
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  Speaker 1: eighteen large towns beside many villages and private families. On
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  Speaker 1: the twenty sixth day of October, we arrived at the metropolis,
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  Speaker 1: called in their language law Berlgrud or Pride of the Universe.
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  Speaker 1: My master took a lodging in the principal street of
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  Speaker 1: the city, not far from the royal Palace, and put
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  Speaker 1: out bills in the usual form containing an exact description
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  Speaker 1: of my person and parts. He hired a large room
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  Speaker 1: between three and four hundred feet wide. He provided a
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  Speaker 1: table sixty feet in diameter upon which I was to
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  Speaker 1: act my part, and pallisdoed it round three feet from
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  Speaker 1: the edge and as many high to prevent my falling over.
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  Speaker 1: I was shown ten times a day, to the wonder
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  Speaker 1: and satisfaction of all people. I could now speak the
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  Speaker 1: language tolerably well and perfectly understood every word that was
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  Speaker 1: spoken to me. Besides, I had learnt their alphabet and
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  Speaker 1: could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there.
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  Speaker 1: For Glumdalklitch had been my instructor while we were at
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  Speaker 1: home and at leisure hours during our journey. She carried
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  Speaker 1: a little book in her pocket, not much larger than
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  Speaker 1: a Samson's atlas. It was a common treatise for the
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  Speaker 1: use of young girls, giving a short account of their religion.
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  Speaker 1: Out of this she taught me my letters and interpreted
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  Speaker 1: the words. End of Chapter two, Part two