on a ftrict review, I blotted out feveral paffages of lefs moment which were in my firft copy, for fear of being cenfured as tedious and trifling, whereof travellers are often, perhaps not without justice, accused. CHA P. II. A defcription of the farmer's daughter. The author carried to a market-town, and then to the metropolis. The particulars of his journey. Y mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of towardly parts for her age, very dexterous at her needle, and fkilful in dreffing her baby. Her mother and she contrived to fit up the baby's cradle for me against night: the cradle was put into a small drawer of a cabinet, and the drawer placed upon a hanging fhelf for fear of the rats. This was my bed all the time I stayed with those people, though made more convenient by degrees, as I began to learn their language, and make my wants known. This young girl was fo handy, that, after I had once or twice pulled off my cloaths before her, she was able able to dress and undrefs me, though I never gave her that trouble, when fhe would let me do either myself. She made me seven shirts, and fome other linnen, of as fine cloth as could be got, which indeed was coarfer than fackcloth; and these fhe conftantly washed for me with her own hands. She was likewife my fchoolmistress to teach me the language: when I pointed to any thing, fhe told me the name of it in her own tongue, fo that in a few days I was able to call for whatever I had a mind to. She was very goodnatured, and not above forty feet high, being little for her age. She gave me the name of Grildrig, which the family took up, and afterwards the whole kingdom. The word imports, what the Latins call nanunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mannikin. To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country: we never parted while I was there; I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse; and fhould be guilty of great ingratitude, if I omitted this honourable mention of her. care and affection towards me, which I heartily with it lay in my power to requite as as fhe deferves, instead of being the innocent, but unhappy inftrument of her difgrace, as I have too much reason to fear. It now began to be known and talked of in the neighbourhood, that my master had found a strange animal in the field, about the bigness of a fplacknuck, but exactly shaped in every part like a human creature; which it likewife imitated in all its actions; seemed to speak in a little language of its own, had already learned feveral words of theirs, went erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would come when it was called, do whatever it was bid, had the finest limbs in the world, and a complexion fairer than a nobleman's daughter of three years old. Another farmer, who lived hard by, and was a particular friend of my mafter, came on a visit on purpose to enquire into the truth of this ftory. I was immediately produced, and placed upon a table, where I walked as I was commanded, drew my hanger, put it up again, made my reverence to my mafter's gueft, asked him in his own language how he did, and told him he was welcome, just as my little nurse had inftructed me, This man, who was old and dim-fighted, put on his spectacles to behold me better, at which I could not forbear laughing very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon fhining into a chamber at two windows. Our people, who difcovered the cause of my mirth, bore me company in laughing, at which the old fellow was fool enough to be angry and out of countenance. He had the character of a great mifer, and, to my misfortune, he well deferved it by the curfed advice he gave my mafter to fhew me as a fight upon a market-day in the next town, which was half an hour's riding, about two and twenty miles from our house. I gueffed there was fome mifchief contriving, when I obferved my mafter and his friend whispering long together, fometimes pointing at me; and my fears made me fancy that I overheard and understood fome of their words. But the next morning Glumdalclitch, my little nurfe, told me the whole matter, which fhe had cunningly picked out from her mother. The poor girl laid me on her bofom, and fell a weeping with fhame and grief. She apprehended fome mifchief would would happen to me from rude vulgar My mafter, pursuant to the advice of his |