Gulliver’s Travels ; A voyage to Lilliput I; Part I

Chapter I of A voyage to Lilliput

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My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons.  He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen 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.