The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy (1912) (14770261771)

Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ9 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho



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o provide the prisoner with PEEPS INTO TWO IMMORTAL BOOKS 101 food an.l drink, payment for which was>to bemade from the Imperial treasury. The allow-ance stipulated for was sufficient for the supportoi one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eightLilliputians. An establishment oi six hundred domestics wasalso arranged for him. Further, three hundredtailors were appointed to make him a suit ofclothes after the fashion of the country. Theland appeared, he says, like a continued garden,and the enclosed fields, which were generally engaged numbered three thousand foot and a thousand horse. At last, upon certain conditions, Gulliver wasgiven his liherty, and was allowed to see the capi-tal. The people had notice by proclamation ofhis design to visit the town, which was sur-rounded by a wall two feet and a half high, andat least eleven inches broad, and flanked withstrong towers ten feet apart. I stepped over the great western gate, he tellsus, and passed very gently, and sideling, through
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BENDING MY EVES DOWNWARD, I PERCEIVED A HUMAN CREATURE NOT SIX INCHES HIGH. forty feet square, resembled so many beds offlowers. Proclamations were issued directing all whohad beheld the Man-Mountain, as he was calledin the language of the country, to return homeand not presume again to come within fifty yardsof his house without license from the court,whereby the Secretaries of State got consider-able fees. GULLIVER AT THE ROYAL PALACEOF LILLIPUT One day the emperor desired Gulliver to standup like the Colossus, with his legs apart, andmarched his troops under him. The troops soIX—8 the two principal streets, only in my short waist-coat, for fear of damaging the roofs and eaveswith the skirts of my coat. The garret windowsand tops of houses were so crowded with spec-tators that I thought in all my travels I had notseen a more populous place. The two greatstreets are five feet wide. The lanes and alleys,which I could not enter, are from twelve to eigh-teen inches. The town is capabl