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"
If
a
struldbrug
happen
to
marry
one
of
his
own
kind
,
the
marriage
is
dissolved
of
course
,
by
the
courtesy
of
the
kingdom
,
as
soon
as
the
younger
of
the
two
comes
to
be
fourscore
;
for
the
law
thinks
it
a
reasonable
indulgence
,
that
those
who
are
condemned
,
without
any
fault
of
their
own
,
to
a
perpetual
continuance
in
the
world
,
should
not
have
their
misery
doubled
by
the
load
of
a
wife
.
"
As
soon
as
they
have
completed
the
term
of
eighty
years
,
they
are
looked
on
as
dead
in
law
;
their
heirs
immediately
succeed
to
their
estates
;
only
a
small
pittance
is
reserved
for
their
support
;
and
the
poor
ones
are
maintained
at
the
public
charge
.
After
that
period
,
they
are
held
incapable
of
any
employment
of
trust
or
profit
;
they
can
not
purchase
lands
,
or
take
leases
;
neither
are
they
allowed
to
be
witnesses
in
any
cause
,
either
civil
or
criminal
,
not
even
for
the
decision
of
meers
and
bounds
.
"
At
ninety
,
they
lose
their
teeth
and
hair
;
they
have
at
that
age
no
distinction
of
taste
,
but
eat
and
drink
whatever
they
can
get
,
without
relish
or
appetite
.
The
diseases
they
were
subject
to
still
continue
,
without
increasing
or
diminishing
.
In
talking
,
they
forget
the
common
appellation
of
things
,
and
the
names
of
persons
,
even
of
those
who
are
their
nearest
friends
and
relations
.
For
the
same
reason
,
they
never
can
amuse
themselves
with
reading
,
because
their
memory
will
not
serve
to
carry
them
from
the
beginning
of
a
sentence
to
the
end
;
and
by
this
defect
,
they
are
deprived
of
the
only
entertainment
whereof
they
might
otherwise
be
capable
.
The
language
of
this
country
being
always
upon
the
flux
,
the
struldbrugs
of
one
age
do
not
understand
those
of
another
;
neither
are
they
able
,
after
two
hundred
years
,
to
hold
any
conversation
(
farther
than
by
a
few
general
words
)
with
their
neighbours
the
mortals
;
and
thus
they
lie
under
the
disadvantage
of
living
like
foreigners
in
their
own
country
.
"
This
was
the
account
given
me
of
the
struldbrugs
,
as
near
as
I
can
remember
.
I
afterwards
saw
five
or
six
of
different
ages
,
the
youngest
not
above
two
hundred
years
old
,
who
were
brought
to
me
at
several
times
by
some
of
my
friends
;
but
although
they
were
told
,
"
that
I
was
a
great
traveller
,
and
had
seen
all
the
world
,
"
they
had
not
the
least
curiosity
to
ask
me
a
question
;
only
desired
"
I
would
give
them
slumskudask
,
"
or
a
token
of
remembrance
;
which
is
a
modest
way
of
begging
,
to
avoid
the
law
,
that
strictly
forbids
it
,
because
they
are
provided
for
by
the
public
,
although
indeed
with
a
very
scanty
allowance
.
They
are
despised
and
hated
by
all
sorts
of
people
.
When
one
of
them
is
born
,
it
is
reckoned
ominous
,
and
their
birth
is
recorded
very
particularly
so
that
you
may
know
their
age
by
consulting
the
register
,
which
,
however
,
has
not
been
kept
above
a
thousand
years
past
,
or
at
least
has
been
destroyed
by
time
or
public
disturbances
.
But
the
usual
way
of
computing
how
old
they
are
,
is
by
asking
them
what
kings
or
great
persons
they
can
remember
,
and
then
consulting
history
;
for
infallibly
the
last
prince
in
their
mind
did
not
begin
his
reign
after
they
were
fourscore
years
old
.
They
were
the
most
mortifying
sight
I
ever
beheld
;
and
the
women
more
horrible
than
the
men
.
Besides
the
usual
deformities
in
extreme
old
age
,
they
acquired
an
additional
ghastliness
,
in
proportion
to
their
number
of
years
,
which
is
not
to
be
described
;
and
among
half
a
dozen
,
I
soon
distinguished
which
was
the
eldest
,
although
there
was
not
above
a
century
or
two
between
them
The
reader
will
easily
believe
,
that
from
what
I
had
hear
and
seen
,
my
keen
appetite
for
perpetuity
of
life
was
much
abated
.
I
grew
heartily
ashamed
of
the
pleasing
visions
I
had
formed
;
and
thought
no
tyrant
could
invent
a
death
into
which
I
would
not
run
with
pleasure
,
from
such
a
life
.
The
king
heard
of
all
that
had
passed
between
me
and
my
friends
upon
this
occasion
,
and
rallied
me
very
pleasantly
;
wishing
I
could
send
a
couple
of
struldbrugs
to
my
own
country
,
to
arm
our
people
against
the
fear
of
death
;
but
this
,
it
seems
,
is
forbidden
by
the
fundamental
laws
of
the
kingdom
,
or
else
I
should
have
been
well
content
with
the
trouble
and
expense
of
transporting
them
.
