Chap. 1
A Voyage to Lilliput
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wards repeated and explained to me.) Whereupon immediately about Fifty of the Inhabitants came, and cut the Strings that fastened the Left side of my head, which gave me the liberty of turning it to the Right, and of observing the
'Many Periods of Threatnings.'
Person and Gesture of him that was to speak. He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other Three who attended him, whereof one was a Page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my Middle finger; the other Two stood one on each side to support him.
