Kitabı oku: «Gulliver's Travels. A Voyage to Lilliput. A2 / Путешествия Гулливера. Гулливер в стране лилипутов», sayfa 14

There was one more game that the emperor, empress and the first minister liked. The emperor has threethreads; one is blue, the other red, and the third green. He gives these threads to the best candidates. First, the emperor holds a stick in his hands, and people need to do tricks on it. Some of them jump over it, some of them creep under it back and forth. Sometimes the emperor holds one end of the stick, and his first minister the other; sometimes the minister has it all to himself. The best candidate gets the blue-coloured thread; the red is given to the next, and the green to the third.

A few days before I was free, a message came to the king to tell him that some people saw a large black thing on the ground. It was aswide as the king's bedroom and as tall as a person. It wasn't alive, just lying without moving. The king told them to bring it with five horses. When I saw it, I understood that it was my hat that I lost while swimming. I asked the king to give it back to me.

Two days later, the emperor wanted to have some fun. He asked me to stand like a giant with my legswide; and told his soldiers to walk through them. They really tried to behave respectively, however, it was hard and they couldn't stop laughing.