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From then on, the king of Lilliput did not demand much of me.

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I suppose that was because he no longer liked me.

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I could do as I pleased and go wherever I liked in Lilliput.

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Not long after the Blefuscan officials visited me, I had an opportunity to help the king of Lilliput.

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About midnight one night, people screaming outside my house woke me up.

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They were frantic, and I could not understand what they were shouting.

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Suddenly, some palace officials arrived.

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"Hurry!" one of them cried.

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"You must come with us.

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It's an emergency—the palace is on fire!"

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"Of course," I replied and rushed to get dressed.

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"Jump onto my hand.

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I'll carry you all so that we'll get there quickly."

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We hurried to the palace.

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The fire had started by accident in the room of one of the queen's maids.

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A burning candle had fallen over and some curtains caught on fire.

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When we arrived, the fire was out of control.

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Many people were trying to put it out.

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Two ladders were leaning up against the castle walls near the open windows of the maid's room.

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A man was at the top of each ladder.

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People were passing buckets of water up to those men.

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The men threw water on the flames, but it did not do much good.

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The Lilliputian buckets were tiny and held very little water.

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As each minute passed, the fire burned more strongly.

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"The fire's spread to another room!" cried one of the men on the ladder.

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"The whole palace might burn down!" shouted the other one.

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A feeling in my body suddenly gave me an idea.

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The night before, I had drunk quite a lot of wine.

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The wine had made me very thirsty.

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So I had drunk a lot of water too, enough to fill about twenty Lilliputian barrels.

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I had felt so tired after drinking the wine that I had fallen asleep right away.

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I could feel all that water still inside me.

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The firefighters did not have enough water to put out the fire. But I did.

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"Stand back!" I shouted to them.

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"I will put out the fire.

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Please turn your backs to me and don't look."

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I did just what a little boy would do when he is outside and needs to go to the bathroom.

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I aimed through the open windows at the fire.

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Soon, the fire was out.

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"Hooray!" shouted the crowd of people who had been watching.

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"Three cheers for the Enormous One!

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He has saved the palace."

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The emergency was over, so I went back to my house.

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I was happy that I had been able to put out the fire.

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But I was worried that the king would not like the way I had done it.

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The king had a law about people doing what I had done right outside the palace.

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The next day, the king sent me a message. It said:

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<font color="#ffff00"><i>Enormous One: Your behavior was against the law.</i></font>

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<font color="#ffff00"><i>I realize, though, that there was no other way to put out the fire.</i></font>

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<font color="#ffff00"><i>So I will excuse your bad behavior just this once.</i></font>

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<font color="#ffff00"><i>I am grateful that you saved my palace.</i></font>

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The queen was not as understanding as the king.

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My behavior disgusted her.

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She told everyone she would not allow the burned part of the palace to be repaired.

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"I will never go into those rooms again," she said.

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"I will never forgive the giant.

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He has no manners!"