Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ9 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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o crowded with spec-tators that I thought in all my travels I had notseen a more populous place. The two greatstreets are five feet wide. The lanes and alleys,which I could not enter, are from twelve to eigh-teen inches. The town is capable of holding fivehundred thousand souls. The houses are fromthree to five stories, the shops and markets wellprovided. The emperors palace is in the centerof the city. It is enclosed by a wall two feethigh, and twenty feet distant from the buildings.The outward court is a square of forty feet,and includes two other courts; in the inmost arethe royal apartments. The buildings of the outer 102 PEEPS INTO TWO IMMORTAL BOOKS were at least five feet high, and it was impossiblefor me to stride over them without infinite dam-age to the pile, though the walls were stronglybuilt of hewn stone, and four inches thick. city. Of these trees I made two stools, each aboutthree feet high, and strong enough to bear myweight. The people having received notice a second
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DRAWN BY FIFTEEN HUNDRED OF THE EMPERORS LARGEST HORSES, GULLIVER WAS CONVEYED TO THE CAPITAL OF LILLIPUT. At the same time the emperor had a greatdesire that I should see the magnificence of hispalace; but this I was not able to do until threedays after, which I spent in cutting down withmy knife some of the largest trees in the royalpark about a hundred yards distant from the time, I went again through the city to the palace,with my two stools in my hands. When I cameto the side of the outer court I stood upon onestool, and took the other in my hand. This Ilifted over the roof, and gently set it down onthe space between the first and second court, PEEPS INTO TWO IMMORTAL BOOKS 103 which was eighl feel wide. I then stepped overthe buildings very conveniently from one stool tothe other, and drew up the first after me with ahooked stick.

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