Chapter III

I have neglected to record my Goings-On in the recent Passing of Time. Here follows an abridged List of mine recent Activities:

1. My good Disposition and Kindness to the Emperor will possibly grant me a Chance at Liberty. To ensure mine Liberty:

-I have permitted several Children to play in my Hair

- I have made Myself familiar with the Local Language

2. I made an Arena out of mine Handkerchief for the Horses and for the

Emperor’s Entertainment.

3. They found my Hat. The Hat had a Hole in it.

4. I am known as Man-Mountain

5. Emperor orders me to stand like a Colossus. Soldiers walk below me. They make Mockery of my Pants.

6. Three Days later, they awarded Me my Liberty so long as I oblige by their Conditions:

- I may not leave without their License

- I may enter the Metropolis without Prior Announcement

-I may not walk in the Meadow or Field of Corn, only the principle High Roads

-As I walk on those Roads, I must take full Caution as to not trample upon Lilliputians.

- In Times of Expediency, I am obliged to carry the Messenger and Horse in my Pocket to the given Destination and return Them safely.

-I must be an Ally against the Island of Blefuscu.

- I am required to labor and raise Stones.

-In Moon’s time, I must scout out the Territories of their Dominions. I must measure the Dominions based on mine own Measurements.

- If I promise these said Conditions, I am granted the Food Equivalent to 1728 of the Local Subjects.*

7. I am sworn to the Conditions. I am at Liberty!!!

8. We are celebrating with a Ceremony from the Emperor. Huzzah!!!!!!

*The Reader may please to observe, that in the last Article for the Recovery of my Liberty, the Emperor stipulates to allow me a Quantity of Meat and Drink, sufficient for the Support of 1728 Lilliputians. Some time after, asking a Friend at Court how they came to fix on that determinate Number; he told me, that his Majesty’s Mathematicians, having taken the Height of my Body by the Help of a Quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the Proportion of Twelve to One, the concluded from the Similarity of their Bodies, that mine must contain at least 1728 of theirs, and consequently would require as much Food as was necessary to support that Number of Lilliputians. By which, the Reader may conceive an Idea of the Ingenuity of that People, as well as the prudent and exact Oeconomy of so great a Prince.