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Tonight, I will be reading

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

So lie down, close your eyes,

and let me read you a story.

Chapter 1.

The author gives an account of himself and his family.

His first inducements to travel.

He is shipwrecked and swims for his life,

gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput,

is made a prisoner and shore in the country of Lilliput, is made a prisoner,

and carried up the country.

My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire. I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emmanuel College in Cambridge at 14 years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my

studies. But the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great

for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London,

with whom I continued four years.

My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation

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