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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Swift, Jonathan

Swift, Jonathan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Gulliver's Travels: Book II, Chapters 5 - 8

Chapter V

Gulliver tells us that he is reasonably happy in Brobdingnag except for
the ridiculous and troublesome accidents he encounters for reason of his tiny
size. Many of these accidents occur in the Garden of the Court where Gulliver
often comes out of his box and roams about freely. On one occasion, before
the Queen disposes of her dwarf, both Gulliver and the dwarf are in the
vicinity of a Dwarf Apple Tree; Gulliver cannot resist the temptation to make
a crack about the similarity in names between the ...

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