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114 THE LILIPUTIANS.

 

their size, certainly come pretty near
Gulliver’s description of the Liliputians.

One of these pigmies—or Lilipu-
tians; I can hardly help calling them
so—is a boy, and the other a girl.
Those who have the little creatures un-
der their charge, tell us that they obtain-
ed them of one who declares that they
came from a city in Central America.
The man who claims to have captured
them, with the assistance of several
other individuals, gives a long account
of his perilous adventures to the city,
and his escape, with these two children.
How much, exactly, of this story is