GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (4)

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (4)

When I woke up I found myself on a kind of platform with wheels.
It was moving towards the capital city of these tiny people about half a mile away.

 

Fifteen hundred od the emperor's largest horses, each about as big as my hand, were pulling me along.

I later found out that it had taken five hundred carpenters and engineers to make this platform, and no less than nine hundred men to put me onto it while I was still asleep.

For some time I did not know what had wakened me.
I was told later however that some of the young people wanted to see how I looked when I was asleep. 

They climbed onto the platform and walked very softly up to my face.

One of them, an officer in the Guards, put the sharp end of his spear up into my nose, which tickled my nose like a straw and made me sneeze, walking me up.

They ran away quickly before I caught sight of them.

We made a long march for the remainder of that day and rested at night.
They put five hundred guards on each side of me ready to shoot me if I tried to escape.  

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