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When I woke up the next morning, I couldn't move.

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"I must still be tired from all that swimming," I thought.

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But soon I discovered why I couldn't move.

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My body, arms, and legs were tied to the ground.

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Even my hair, which was long and thick, was tied down.

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I couldn't even move my head.

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"How strange," I said to myself.

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"I must be dreaming."

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The sun grew hot and shone in my eyes.

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All I could see was the sky.

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Soon, I felt something crawling on my left leg.

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"It must be a bug," I thought.

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It moved up my body almost to my chin.

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I looked down and, to my great surprise, saw a tiny man standing on my chest!

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He was about as big as my thumb, no more than 15 centimeters tall.

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In his hands, he held a bow and arrows.

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I felt many more little men crawling over me.

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In astonishment, I shouted very loudly,

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"Get off me, you insects!"

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They all jumped in alarm and screamed in terror.

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Some of the little men fell right off my body.

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I tried to loosen the ropes that held me down.

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Although the ropes were very thin, like thread, there were hundreds of them.

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Finally, I was able to free my left arm.

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The tiny men began to shoot arrows at me.

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Several arrows landed on my hand.

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Others hit my face and chest.

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"Stop that. It hurts!" I cried out.

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I decided to lie still and see what would happen next.

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The little people gradually became brave and came near me.

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They built a platform beside my head.

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One of them, an official of some kind, climbed onto the platform.

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He started speaking to me, but his language was not like any language I had heard before.

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The little men seemed friendly now.

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"I'm so hungry!" I said, but they didn't understand me.

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With my free hand, I used signs to ask for food.

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The men brought me baskets of many different foods.

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I also drank two barrels of wine.

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Another official spoke to me, making signs with his hands as he talked.

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I understood that they were going to take me to another place.

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I fell asleep again.

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Later, I found out that the wine had contained something to make me sleep.

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I also learned about the island and what had happened while I slept.

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The island was called Lilliput.

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Its king lived in a castle in Mildendo, the capital city, which had high walls around it.

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The people made a huge cart and put me on it when I was asleep.

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I found out that it took nine hundred men to lift me onto the cart.

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Fifteen hundred Lilliputian horses were needed to pull it.

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When we arrived near the city, the guards attached many chains to my ankle.

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Then they cut the ropes that tied me down.

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At last, I was able to stand up and stretch.

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But because of the chains, I could not move about much.

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We were near a very large building just outside the gates of Mildendo.

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"Well," I thought, "it seems this building is to be my home."

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It was big enough for me to crawl into and lie down inside it.

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From outside my new home, I had a good view of the countryside.

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The fields were tiny, like small flower beds in my garden in England.

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Even the tallest trees were only about two meters high.

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Lilliput was a beautiful place, and everything in it was unbelievably tiny.