as Valjean accountable
for the theft? Discuss fully.

3. Where is the point of highest dramatic interest?
If you were painting a scene from the selection,
which would you select?

4. Explain why the Bishop did what he did in the
final scene.

A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT

BY JONATHAN SWIFT

The adventures of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, as told
by Swift in _Gulliver's Travels_, have been read
with delight for two hundred years. Gulliver first
lands in Lilliput and has thrilling adventures
among the little people. Then he visits
Brobdingnag, the land of giants. His third voyage
takes him to Laputa, where he sees the
philosophers; and on the fourth he visits the land
of the Houyhnhnms. The last two voyages are not so
entertaining as the first two, which are classics.

We set sail from Bristol May 4th, 1699, and our voyage
at first was very prosperous. It would not be
proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the
particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to
inform him that in our passage from thence to the East 5
Indies we were driven by a violent storm to the northwest
of Van Diemen's Land. By an observation we found ourselves
in the latitude of thirty degrees, two minutes, south.
Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labor and ill
food, and the rest were in a very weak condition. 10

On the fifth of November, which was the beginning of
summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the
seamen spied a rock within half a cable's length of the ship;
but the wind was so strong that we were driven directly
upon it and immediately split. Six of the crew, of whom 15
I was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a
shift to get clear of the ship and the rock. We rowed, by
my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to
work no longer, being already spent with labor while we
were in the ship. We therefore trusted ourselves to the
mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat
was overset by a sudden flurry from the north. What
became of my companions in the boat, as well as those
who escaped on the rock or were left in the vessel, I cannot 5
tell; but conclude they were all lost.

For my own part I swam as f