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    How was Gulliver carried away by an eagle during a journey?                      (Gulliver's Travels)                                           (5) OR Write a character sketch of Harris.                                                                            (Three Men In a Boat)                                    (5)  

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    Gulliver had never given up hope of escaping from Brobdingnag. One day, the king and queen took a journey to the south coast of the Kingdom. Gulliver was, as usual, carried in his travelling box. The king stayed in his palace near Flanflasnic, a city 18 English miles away from the sea coast. Gulliver begged a page to take him near the sea, as Glumdalclitch was very ill. Not feeling well, Guiliver told the page to leave him in the hammock and close the window. Gulliver was awakened by a violent pull and felt the box raised very high in the air at a tremendous speed. Gulliver discovered that an eagle had caught hold of his box with an intention to drop it on a rock and then pick his body and eat it. A crash told he was floating in the sea. OR The author's friend's wife could not tolerate the smell of the cheeses. She wanted to give them away, but the narrator said his friend would not like that. Then she asked the narrator to keep them, but he declined. She said she could not stay in the house with the cheeses and moved into a hotel. The friend then threw them into a canal, but had to take them out on the complaint of the bargemen. He left them in a mortuary, but the coroner raised a hue and cry. Finally, he buried them on a beach in a seaside town.