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to what the sorrel nag, his valet, had observed, his honour
might command him to conceal it.’
All this my master very graciously consented to; and
thus the secret was kept till my clothes began to wear out,
which I was forced to supply by several contrivances that
shall hereafter be mentioned. In the meantime, he desired
‘I would go on with my utmost diligence to learn their lan-
guage, because he was more astonished at my capacity for
speech and reason, than at the figure of my body, whether it
were covered or not;’ adding, ‘that he waited with some im-
patience to hear the wonders which I promised to tell him.’
Thenceforward he doubled the pains he had been at to
instruct me: he brought me into all company, and made
them treat me with civility; ‘because,’ as he told them, pri-
vately, ‘this would put me into good humour, and make me
more diverting.’
Every day, when I waited on him, beside the trouble he
was at in teaching, he would ask me several questions concerning myself, which I answered as well as I could, and
by these means he had already received some general ideas,
though very imperfect. It would be tedious to relate the
several steps by which I advanced to a more regular con-
versation; but the first account I gave of myself in any order
and length was to this purpose:
‘That I came from a very far country, as I already had at-
tempted to tell him, with about fifty more of my own species;
that we travelled upon the seas in a great hollow vessel made
of wood, and larger than his honour’s house. I described
the ship to him in the best terms I could, and explained, by
the help of my handkerchief displayed, how it was driven
forward by the wind. That upon a quarrel among us, I was
set on shore on this coast, where I walked forward, without
knowing whither, till he delivered me from the persecu-
tion of those execrable Yahoos.’ He asked me, ‘who made
the ship, and how it was possible that the Houyhnhnms of
my country would leave it to the management of brutes?’
My answer was, ‘that I durst proceed no further in my re-
lation, unless he would give me his word and honour that
he would not be offended, and then I would tell him the
wonders I had so often promised.’ He agreed; and I went
on by assuring him, that the ship was made by creatures
like myself; who, in all the countries I had travelled, as well
as in my own, were the only governing rational animals;
and that upon my arrival hither, I was as much astonished
to see the Houyhnhnms act like rational beings, as he, or
his friends, could be, in finding some marks of reason in a
creature he was pleased to call a Yahoo; to which I ownedmy resemblance in every part, but could not account for
their degenerate and brutal nature. I said farther, ‘that if
good fortune ever restored me to my native country, to re-
late my travels hither, as I resolved to do, everybody would
believe, that I said the thing that was not, that I invented the
story out of my own head; and (with all possible respect to
himself, his family, and friends, and under his promise of
not being offended) our countrymen would hardly think it
probable that a Houyhnhnm should be the presiding crea-
ture of a nation, and a Yahoo the brute.’

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