JONATHAN SWIFT
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: PASSAGE No 1
created by Savino Carrella

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CHAPTER I
My father (have) a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I (be) the third of five sons.
He (send) me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I (reside) three years, and (apply) myself close to my studies: but the charge of (maintain) me (although I (have) a very scanty allowance) (be) too great for a narrow fortune, I (be) bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I (continue) four years; and my father now and then (send) me small sums of money, I (lay) them out in (learn) navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who (intend) (travel), as I always (believe) it (be) some time or other my fortune (do). When I (leave) Mr. Bates, I (go down) to my father; where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I (get) forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year (maintain) me at Leyden: there I (study) physic two years and seven months, (know) it (be) useful in long voyages.