. Tales of fantasy . , being admitted, confirmed all that had passed from my arrival at her fathers house. The king, although he be aslearned a person as any in his do-minions, and had been educated inthe study of philosophy, and par-ticularly mathematics ; yet when he observed my shapeexactly, and saw me walk erect, before I began tospeak, conceived I might be a piece of clock-work(which is in that country arrived to a very great per-fection) contrived by some ingenious artist. But whenhe heard my voice, and found what I delivered to beregular and rational, he could not conceal his astonish-m
. Tales of fantasy . , being admitted, confirmed all that had passed from my arrival at her fathers house. The king, although he be aslearned a person as any in his do-minions, and had been educated inthe study of philosophy, and par-ticularly mathematics ; yet when he observed my shapeexactly, and saw me walk erect, before I began tospeak, conceived I might be a piece of clock-work(which is in that country arrived to a very great per-fection) contrived by some ingenious artist. But whenhe heard my voice, and found what I delivered to beregular and rational, he could not conceal his astonish-ment. He was by no means satisfied with the relationI gave him of the manner I came into his kingdom, butthought it a story concerted between Glumdalclitch andher father, who had taught me a set of words to makeme sell at a better price. Upon this imagination, heput several other questions to me, and still receivedrational answers: no otherwise defective, than by aforeign accent, and an imperfect knowledge in the Ian-. Tales of Fantasy guage, with some rustic phrases which I had learned atthe fanners house, and did not suit the polite style ofa court. His majesty sent for three great scholars, who werethen in weekly waiting, according to the custom inthat country. These gentlemen, after they had awhileexamined my shape with much nicety, were of differentopinions concerning me. They all agreed that I couldnot be produced according to the regular laws of na-ture, because I was not framed with a capacity of pre-serving my life, either by swiftness, or climbing oftrees, or digging holes in the earth. They observedby my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness,that I was a carnivorous animal; yet most quadrupedsbeing an over-match for me, and field mice, with someothers, too nimble, they could not imagine how I shouldbe able to support myself, unless I fed upon snails andother insects, which they offered, by many learnedarguments, to evince that I could not possibly muc
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