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Chapter 10 GULLIVER IS TAKEN AS A PRISONER TO THE CAPITAL OF LILLIPUT

Word Count: 1860    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

he night lying where he was, guarded on each side by five hundred men with t

ht. The trolley, with Gulliver on it, stopped outside the walls, alongside a very large building which had onc

e building the King's blacksmiths fastened many chains, which they then brought through one of these little windows and padlocked round Gulliver's left ank

s and forwards outside. Always when he walked, thousands of people thronged around to look at hi

his great white charger. When the horse saw Gulliver move it was terrified, and plunged and reared so madly that the people feared that a terrible accident was going to happen, and several

eyes. But the officer in command of the soldiers who were on guard ordered his men to bind and push six of the worst behaved of the crowd within reach of Gulliver, who at once seized five of them and put them in his coat pocket. The sixth he held up to his mouth and made as if he meant to eat him, whereupon the wretched little creature shrieked aloud with terror, and when Gulliver took out his knife, all the people,

. Some were of opinion that to keep and feed so huge a creature would cause a famine in the land, or, at the least, that the expense would be greater than the public funds could bear; they advised, therefore, that he should be killed-shot in

urrounding villages should send into the city for Gulliver's daily us

at three hundred tailors were to make for him a suit of clothes; and that six

world. Blefuscu lay far over the sea, to these little people dim and blue on the horizon, though to Gulliver the distance did not seem to be more than a mile. The Lilliputians knew of no land beyond Blefuscu. And as for Gulliver himself, they believed that he had fa

ght be taken off and that he might be free to walk about. But this he was told could not then be granted. He must first, the King's council sa

lliver lifted up these officers in his hand and put them into each of his pockets, one

. His pistols they called "hollow pillars of iron, fastened to strong pieces of timber," and the use of his bullets, and of his powder (which he had been lucky enough to bring ashore dry, owing to his pouch being water-tight), they coul

nderstand the pistols, and to show his meaning, Gulliver was obliged to fire one of them. At once hundreds of little people fell down as if they had been struck dead by the noise. Even the King, though

loose and doing some mischief, they began to treat him in a more friendly way than they had hitherto

and kept his post chiefly through his great skill in turning somersaults on the tight rope. The Chief Secretary for private affairs ran him very close, and there was hardly a Minister of State who did not owe his position to such successes. Few of them, indeed, h

exercised daily close to the Man Mountain. Soon they became so used to the sight of him that they would come right up to his foot without starting or shying. Often the riders would jump thei

one day that some strong sticks, about two feet in height, should be brought to him. Several of these he fixed firmly in the ground, and across them, near the top, he lashed four other sticks,

d to watch them go through their drill on this platform. Sometimes he would even be lifted up himself and give the words of command; and once he persuaded the Queen, who was rather timid, to let herself be held up in her ch

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Contents

Chapter 1 CLASSIC TALES Chapter 2 HOW DON QUIXOTE WAS KNIGHTED Chapter 3 HOW DON QUIXOTE RESCUED ANDRES; AND HOW HE RETURNED HOME Chapter 4 HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA STARTED ON THEIR SEARCH FOR ADVENTURES; AND HOW DON QUIXOTE FOUGHT WITH THE WINDMILLS Chapter 5 HOW DON QUIXOTE WON A HELMET; HOW HE FOUGHT WITH TWO ARMIES; AND HOW SANCHO'S ASS WAS STOLEN Chapter 6 HOW DON QUIXOTE SAW DULCINEA Chapter 7 HOW DON QUIXOTE FOUGHT WITH A LION; AND HOW HE DEFEATED THE MOORS Chapter 8 GULLIVER'S BIRTH AND EARLY VOYAGES Chapter 9 GULLIVER IS WRECKED ON THE COAST OF LILLIPUT Chapter 10 GULLIVER IS TAKEN AS A PRISONER TO THE CAPITAL OF LILLIPUT Chapter 11 GULLIVER IS FREED, AND CAPTURES THE BLEFUSCAN FLEET
Chapter 12 ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP
Chapter 13 THE ENCHANTED HORSE
Chapter 14 THE STORY OF WHAT LED TO THE SIEGE OF TROY
Chapter 15 THE COUNCIL
Chapter 16 THE FIGHT BETWEEN PARIS AND MENELAUS
Chapter 17 HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE
Chapter 18 HOW PATROCLUS FOUGHT AND DIED
Chapter 19 WHAT HAPPENED IN ITHACA WHILE ODYSSEUS WAS AWAY
Chapter 20 HOW ROBINSON FIRST WENT TO SEA; AND HOW HE WAS SHIPWRECKED
Chapter 21 ROBINSON WORKS HARD AT MAKING HIMSELF A HOME
Chapter 22 THE EARTHQUAKE AND HURRICANE; AND HOW ROBINSON BUILT A BOAT
Chapter 23 ROBINSON BUILDS A SECOND BOAT, IN WHICH HE IS SWEPT OUT TO SEA
Chapter 24 ROBINSON SEES A FOOTPRINT ON THE SAND, FINDS A CAVE, AND RESCUES FRIDAY
Chapter 25 ROBINSON TRAINS FRIDAY, AND THEY BUILD A LARGE BOAT; THEY RESCUE TWO PRISONERS FROM THE CANNIBALS
Chapter 26 DORIGEN
Chapter 27 EMELIA
Chapter 28 THE TEMPEST
Chapter 29 QUEEN OF THE MAY
Chapter 30 BAD NEWS
Chapter 31 SUSAN'S GUINEA-FOWL
Chapter 32 SUSAN VISITS THE ABBEY
Chapter 33 SUSAN'S PET LAMB
Chapter 34 THE BLIND HARPER
Chapter 35 GOOD NEWS
Chapter 36 BARBARA VISITS THE ABBEY
Chapter 37 A SURPRISE FOR SUSAN
Chapter 38 BARBARA'S ACCIDENT
Chapter 39 THE PRIZE-GIVING
Chapter 40 ATTORNEY CASE IN TROUBLE
Chapter 41 No.41
Chapter 42 No.42
Chapter 43 No.43
Chapter 44 No.44
Chapter 45 No.45
Chapter 46 No.46
Chapter 47 No.47
Chapter 48 THE GOOD-NATURED LITTLE BOY
Chapter 49 HOW AND ABOUT LITTLE MARGERY AND HER BROTHER
Chapter 50 HOW AND ABOUT MR. SMITH
Chapter 51 HOW LITTLE MARGERY OBTAINED THE NAME OF GOODY TWO-SHOES, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PARISH
Chapter 52 HOW LITTLE MARGERY LEARNED TO READ, AND BY DEGREES TAUGHT OTHERS
Chapter 53 HOW LITTLE TWO-SHOES BECAME A TROTTING TUTORESS, AND HOW SHE TAUGHT HER YOUNG PUPILS
Chapter 54 HOW THE WHOLE PARISH WAS FRIGHTENED
Chapter 55 CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE SPIRITS OR THINGS SHE SAW IN THE CHURCH
Chapter 56 OF SOMETHING WHICH HAPPENED TO LITTLE MARGERY TWO-SHOES IN A BARN, MORE DREADFUL THAN THE GHOST IN THE CHURCH; AND HOW SHE RETURNED GOOD FOR EVIL TO HER ENEMY, SIR TIMOTHY.
Chapter 57 OF HER SCHOOL, HER USHERS, OR ASSISTANTS, AND HER MANNER OF TEACHING
Chapter 58 A SCENE OF DISTRESS IN A SCHOOL
Chapter 59 OF THE AMAZING SAGACITY AND INSTINCT OF A LITTLE DOG
Chapter 60 WHAT HAPPENED AT FARMER GROVE'S, AND HOW SHE GRATIFIED HIM FOR THE USE OF HIS ROOM
Chapter 61 THE CASE OF MRS. MARGERY
Chapter 62 THE TRUE USE OF RICHES
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