face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his pike a good way up into my left nostril. This tickled my nose like a straw and made me sneeze violently, whereupon they stole off unperceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.

10. We made a long march the remaining part of the day, and rested at night, with five hundred guards on each side of me, half with torches and half with bows and arrows, to shoot me if I should offer to stir. The next morning at sunrise we continued our march, and about noon arrived within two hundred yards of the city gates. The emperor and all his court came out to meet us; but his great officers would by no means allow his majesty to endanger his person by mounting on my body.

11. At the place where we stopped there stood an ancient temple, considered to be the largest in the whole kingdom; and in this edifice it was determined I should lodge. The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.

12. On each side of the gate was a small window, not above six inches from the ground. Through this the king's smith carried four score and eleven chains, like those that hang to a lady's watch in Europe, and almost as large. These were locked to my left leg with six-and-thirty padlocks.

13. 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 principal lords of his court, to have an opportunity of viewing 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, and, in spite of my guards, I believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand, at several times, who mounted my body by the help of ladders. But a proclamation was soon issued to forbid it upon pain of death.

14. When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose they cut all the strings that bound me. Then I rose up, with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in my life. But the noise and astonishment of the people at seeing me rise and walk are not to be expressed.

HEADS FOR COMPOSITION.

Write a composition by answering the following questions:1. In what manner did the Lilliputians feed Gulliver? 2. How did they give him drink?

3. What means were used to hoist Gulliver into the "engine" made to transport him?

4. What ridiculous accident happened to Gulliver on the journey?

5. Where was Gulliver lodged?

92.-Gulliver among the Giants.

PART I.

lee'-side, the side farthest from | ma-lí'cioŭs, spiteful. the point where the wind blows. pûr'chased, bought.

1. GULLIVER on his second voyage found himself on the island of Brobdingnag, the land of the giants.

2. The first of the monsters that he saw was as tall as an ordinary church-steeple, and as he walked he took about ten yards at every stride. This giant discovered Gulliver hiding in the grass, and taking him up between his thumb and forefinger carried him home and presented him to his daughter.

3. This maiden was about nine years old; she is described as "very good-natured, and not above forty feet high, being little of her age." She became very fond of the curious little pet her father had given her, and taught Gulliver to call her Glumdalclitch, which means "little nurse."

4. After a time Gulliver was carried to the capital, and was purchased as a curiosity by the queen, who kept the "little nurse" to look after her pet.

5. I should have lived happily enough in that country, if my littleness had not exposed me to various ridiculous and troublesome accidents. Some of these I shall now relate.

hand or set me down to walk. I remember that one day the queen's dwarf followed us into those gardens, and my nurse having set me down near some dwarf apple-trees, I must needs show my wit by a silly comparison which I made between him and the trees.

7. This greatly offended the malicious rogue; and watching his opportunity, when I was walking under

one of the trees, he shook it directly over my head. A dozen apples, each nearly as large as a hogshead, came tumbling about my ears. One of them hit me on my back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face; but I received no other hurt, and the dwarf was pardoned at my desire, because I had given the provocation.

8. Another day my mistress left me on a smooth grass-plot to divert myself, while she walked on with her governess. In the mean time there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail that by the force of it I was at once struck to the ground, and when I was down the hailstones gave me cruel bangs all over the body as if I had been pelted with tennis-balls.

9. Though I managed to creep on all fours, and shelter myself by lying flat on my face on the leeside of a hedge, I was so bruised from head to foot that I could not go abroad for ten days. Neither is this at all to be wondered at, because in that country a hailstone is nearly eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe.

10. But a more dangerous accident happened to me in the same garden one day when my little nurse was absent for a short time. A small white spaniel that belonged to one of the chief gardeners, having got by accident into the garden, happened to range near the place where I lay. The dog, following the scent, came directly up, and, taking me in his mouth,