8. Make up a dialogue and dramatize it.

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Part III I

My life in Brobdingnag was happy enough, but as I was so very small, I sometimes had funny adventures. Glumdalclitch often carried me to the palace garden for a walk. One day she put me on the grass, as I asked her, and went to another part of the garden with some other friends. While she was absent, a small white dog which belonged to the gardener approached me. He picked me up in his mouth and ran straight to his mas­ter. Luckily, the dog carried me between his teeth so gently, that I was not hurt at all. My clothes were not even torn. The poor gardener, who knew me well, was in a terrible fright. He took me in both his hands and asked me how I felt, but I was so frightened that I could not say a word. In a few minutes I came to myself, and he carried me safe to my little nurse.

I cannot say whether I was pleased or not that the smaller birds were not afraid of me. They hopped about, looked for food and paid no attention to me. Once a sparrow seized a piece of cake out of my hand and ate it. When I tried to catch one of these birds, it bravely turned against me, ready to fight. But one day I took a thick stick and threw it with all my strength at a little bird so luckily, that I knocked it down. I seized the bird by the neck with both my hands and ran with it to my nurse. The next day I had a bird for dinner by the queen’s command.

Now I shall describe the country of the giants as far as I travelled in it.

It is a large peninsula, about six thousand miles long and from three to five thousand miles wide. It is joined to the north­western parts of America by mountains thirty miles high. There are many volcanoes on the top of these mountains, so nobody can pass, over them, and nobody knows what kind of people live on the other side of the mountains. On the other three sides the peninsula is surrounded by the ocean.

I think our geographers in Europe make a great mistake when they think that there is nothing but sea between Japan and California. I shall be ready to help them correct their maps.

The whole country has not a single seaport. There are very many sharp rocks all along the coast, and the sea is always so rough, that it is impossible to leave the shore. But there are many ships on the large rivers, which are full of good fish. The fish in the sea are of the same size as the fish in Europe, so people do not catch them.