. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . hedge at leastone hundred and twenty feet high, andthe trees so lofty that I could make nocomputation of their altitude. I was endeavoring to find some gapin the hedge, when I discovered one ofthe inhabitants in the next field ad-vancing toward the stile, of the samesize with him whom I saw in the seapursuing our boat. He appeared as tallas an ordinary spire-steeple, and took about tenyards at every stride. I was struck with theutmost fear and astonishment, and ran to hidemyself in the corn, looking back into the nextfield.
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . hedge at leastone hundred and twenty feet high, andthe trees so lofty that I could make nocomputation of their altitude. I was endeavoring to find some gapin the hedge, when I discovered one ofthe inhabitants in the next field ad-vancing toward the stile, of the samesize with him whom I saw in the seapursuing our boat. He appeared as tallas an ordinary spire-steeple, and took about tenyards at every stride. I was struck with theutmost fear and astonishment, and ran to hidemyself in the corn, looking back into the nextfield. I heard him call in a voice many degreeslouder than a speaking-trumpet; but the noisewas so high in the air that at first I certainlythought it was thunder. Whereupon seven mon- sters like himself came toward him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the large-ness of six scythes. These people were not sowell clad as the first, whose servants or laborersthey seemed to be; for, upon some words hespoke, they went to reap the corn in the fieldwhere I GULLIVER EXHIBITED TO THE PEOPLE OF BROBDINGNAG. While Gulliver was lamenting his folly andwilfulness in attempting a second voyage againstthe advice of all his friends and relations, andhad hidden in a ridge for fear, one of the reapersapproached so near as to make, him apprehendthat with the next step he would be squashed todeath under foot or cut in two with the reaping-hook. He screamed as loudly as he could. PEEPS IN TO TWO IMMORTAL BOOKS 105 THE TREMENDOUS GIANT WHO FOUNDGULLIVER AMONG THE CORN WHEREUPON, says he, the huge creature , and, looking round about him for sometime, at last espied me as I lay on the considered awhile with the caution of onewho endeavors to lay hold on a small, dangerousanimal in such a manner that it shall not he aideeither to scratch or bite him. At length he ven-tured to take me up behind by the middle betweenhis forefinger and thumb, and brought me withinthree
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