y company. He made no sign he saw me, and left
his uncouth servant to attend on me. For him, indeed, I began to feel
a kind of affection springing up; he seemed so eager to befriend me.
And whose is the heart quite hardened against a simple admiration? I
rose very gladly when, after having stuffed a wallet with food, he
signed to me to follow him. I turned to Mr. Gulliver and held out my
hand.

"I wish, sir, I might induce you to accompany me," I said. "Some day
we would win our way back to the country we have abandoned. I have
known and loved your name, sir, since first I browsed on
pictures--Being measured for your first coat in Lilliput by the little
tailors:--Straddling the pinnacled city. Ay, sir, and when the farmers
picked you up 'twixt finger and thumb from among their cornstalks...."

I had talked on in hope to see his face relax; but he made no sign he
saw or heard me. I very speedily dropped my hand and went out. But
when my guide and I had advanced about thirty yards from the stockade,
I cast a glance over my shoulder towards the house that had given me
shelter. It rose, sad-coloured and solitary, between the green and
blue. But, if it was not fancy, Mr. Gulliver stood looking down on me
from the very window whence I had looked down on him. And there I do
not doubt he stayed till his fellow-yahoo had passed across his
inhospitable lands out of his sight for ever.

I was glad to be gone, and did not, at first, realise that the least
danger lay before us. But soon, observing the extraordinary vigilance
and caution my companion showed, I began to watch and hearken, too.
Evidently our departure had not passed unseen. Far away to left and to
right of us I descried at whiles now a few, now many, swift-moving
shapes. But whether they were advancing with us, or gathering behind
us, in hope to catch their tyrant alone and unaware, I could not
properly distinguish.

Once, for a cause not apparent to me, my guide raised himself to his
full height, and, thrusting back his head, uttered a most piercing
cry. After that, however, we saw no more for a while of the beasts
that haunted our journey.

All morning, till the sun was high, and the air athrob with heat and
stretched like a great fiddlestring to a continuous, shrill vibration,
we went steadily forward. And when at last I was faint with heat and
thirst, my companion lifted me up like a child on to his back and set
off again at his great, easy stride. It was use