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1 The author gives some account of himself and family.
2 The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual.
3 She gave me the name of Grildrig, which the family took up, and afterwards the whole kingdom.
4 This was a matter of diversion to my master and his family, as well as of mortification to myself.
5 But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family.
6 I went straight to Redriff, where I arrived the same day at two in the afternoon, and found my wife and family in good health.
7 The horse immediately ordered a white mare servant of his family to bring me a good quantity of oats in a sort of wooden tray.
8 For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate.
9 The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family.
10 I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer.
11 I have already told the reader, that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my custom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes.
12 The emperor and royal family came out of the palace; I lay down on my face to kiss his hand, which he very graciously gave me: so did the empress and young princes of the blood.
13 I pointed to every thing, and inquired the name of it, which I wrote down in my journal-book when I was alone, and corrected my bad accent by desiring those of the family to pronounce it often.
14 He was most perplexed about my clothes, reasoning sometimes with himself, whether they were a part of my body: for I never pulled them off till the family were asleep, and got them on before they waked in the morning.
15 Some natural necessities required me to get down; I durst not presume to call; and if I had, it would have been in vain, with such a voice as mine, at so great a distance from the room where I lay to the kitchen where the family kept.
16 My eldest uncle John had left me an estate in land, near Epping, of about thirty pounds a-year; and I had a long lease of the Black Bull in Fetter-Lane, which yielded me as much more; so that I was not in any danger of leaving my family upon the parish.
17 He was an honest man, and a good sailor, but a little too positive in his own opinions, which was the cause of his destruction, as it has been with several others; for if he had followed my advice, he might have been safe at home with his family at this time, as well as myself.
18 I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal, for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt: I begged he would forbear applying that word to me, and make the same order in his family and among his friends whom he suffered to see me.
19 That the productions of such marriages are generally scrofulous, rickety, or deformed children; by which means the family seldom continues above three generations, unless the wife takes care to provide a healthy father, among her neighbours or domestics, in order to improve and continue the breed.
20 Here likewise the regulation of children is settled: as for instance, if a Houyhnhnm has two males, he changes one of them with another that has two females; and when a child has been lost by any casualty, where the mother is past breeding, it is determined what family in the district shall breed another to supply the loss.
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