268 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[ 1874 . 
Syncopation. —Slate, late, ate, at, t (tea). 
Cross-Words.— 1. Hannah. 2. Catalogue. 
Concealed Geographical Names. —1. Asia. 2. Alas¬ 
ka. 3. Parana. 4. San Francisco. 5. Ohio. 
Square-Words.— 
lote IIATE 
OVAL AJAR 
VATS TAPS 
ELSE ERST 
Alphabetical Arithmetic.— 
142)028397(4425 (Key: Wicked boys.) 
Illustrated Double Acrostic. —Water-melon. 
W- igwa -M 
A- ntelop -E 
T- owe -L 
E-ighty-tw-0 
R- ai -N 
AUNT SUE’S NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Effie M. G.—I am glad you “all enjoy the puzzles so 
much.” I can not do less than thank the dear children 
when they take the trouble to write and send me puzzles, 
although many of them are popped into the scrap-basket 
as altogether too poor for use. 
J. H. W.—It is scarcely worth while to “Pi” ■well- 
known proverbs or verses, as one or two words will often 
give a key to the whole, and “ spoil the fun.” 
Bessie Bennett writes to me on the 9th of May, and 
says : “ You just ought to be in the country now ; every¬ 
thing is as pretty as can be.”—I am just going, Bessie. 
If there be one thing I love above another it is to see the 
baby leaves rocked in their bud cradles by the May 
zephyrs to the sweet music of happy birds. Bessie 
squares LOVE five times and HATE ten times; she 
seems to find it easier to “get square” with hale than 
with love. 
Minnie, Hester, and Ettie. —Thanks. I have a 
superabundance of numerical enigmas, but, under the 
circumstances, yours shall be prepared for publication. 
Thanks, for letters, puzzles, etc., to M. Cator, Isaiah 
S. R., M. C. Slew, Mattie J., W. J. K., D. H. L., Ruthic 
A. B., Frank L. H., and Nellie Van. 
All contributions for the Puzzle-Box should bo ad¬ 
dressed to Aunt Sue, P. O. Box 111, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
CJialliver in I!robdign:i". 
Perhaps the first questions you will ask will be, 
“Where is Brobdignag, and who was Gulliver?’’—You 
will not be likely to find Brobdignag on any map or in 
any gazetteer, for the place, as ivell as Gulliver, was the 
work of a gentleman who had a very lively fancy, who 
described both as if they were real. Over a hundred 
years ago there appeared a book called Gulliver’s Travels, 
by one Jonathan Swift, better known as Dean Swift, 
and it was a most interesting story; 
fifty years ago or less it was printed 
With pictures as a children’s book, as 
the story was so well told that children 
could get amusement from i t as they do 
from Robinson Crusoe. But it was 
not intended as a child’s book; the 
author wrote it to ridicule some of the 
people and the fashions of his time. 
The story says that Gulliver was ship¬ 
wrecked on a strange land called Lili- 
put, where the people were only six 
inches high; and it gives a great many 
amusing adventures that happened to 
him among these little’pcople. He was 
first taken prisoner by them, having laid 
down to sleep near one of their cities. 
He found upon waking that he could • 
not rise; the little fellows had made 
him fast by the hairs of his head, as 
well as by many cords over his limbs. 
They thus took him captive, and lie 
lived for a while among these little 
people, doing many strange things. 
Although Liliput was a fanciful name, 
it has become fixed in our language, 
and we call anything that is small 
“ liliputian.” 
After a while Gulliver escaped from 
Liliput and reached home, but soon af¬ 
ter he went on another voyage and got 
left by his ship in the land of the 
Brobdignagians, who wore a race of 
giants, as much larger than he rvas as 
ho was larger than the Liliputians, and 
his adventures here were quite as 
strange and as laughable as those 
among the pigmies. He was taken 
possession of by a farmer, who put 
Gulliver in the care of his daughter, a 
bouncing lass, who had the beautiful 
name of Glumdalclitch. You can 
imagine the size she was said to be by 
the story that she had a box made in 
which to carry Gulliver about, like a 
pet bird. Everything in Brobdignag, 
according to this history, was as large 
in proportion as the people, or, to be 
exact, trees, birds, hailstones, and all 
other natural objects were eighteen 
hundred times larger than in England. 
After a while he went to court and lived 
with the king and queen. One of the 
royal attendants had a spite against 
Gulliver, and as he was walking in an 
orchard shook the trees, and the apples, 
each nearly as largo as a barrel, came 
near killing him. lie had wondrous 
battles with the linnets and other small 
birds of the country, as well as with a 
frog. For exercise he used to row 
in a boat which the princess hung up 
in her closet to dry after he had used it. 
But perhaps some of you may some day 
come across this quaint old book, which 
though written to ridicule the court of 
England, and princes and public men 
now long dead, is very bright and 
amusing for the way in which the story 
is told. Some very beautiful editions 
of this famous book have been pub¬ 
lished, with fine illustrations. The 
picture here given is from one of 
these volumes, and is by Morten. The 
farmer who first had Gulliver used to take him about 
and exhibit him, just as Barnum in later years did with 
Tom Thumb. The picture shows one of these exhibi¬ 
tions before the wise people and dignitaries of Brob- 
dignag. His mistress, Glumdalclitch, is showing off her 
pet, who is evidently astonishing the natives. A por¬ 
tion of the box in which the lady carried Gulliver around 
is seen at one side, and she holds in her hand one of the 
straws of that remarkable country, which, according to 
Gulliver, served him for a lance or spear. If the persons 
who are witnessing his exhibition are fair specimens of 
the citizens of Brobdignag, we do not wonder that he 
was glad to leave the country, notwithstanding .that he 
was a favorite with the king and the royal family. 
GULLIVER BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF BROBDIGNAG. 
