The Last of the Gullivers by Carter Crocker

Author:Carter Crocker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2011-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

It was going to be tough, keeping that curfew. But Michael didn’t want to end up in the Young Offenders Institution. When he finished his work at Fenn’s, he hurried to check on the Little Ones.

He found them clustered in the streets, reading the latest pamphlet.

“What’s going on?” the boy asked Mr. Topgallant.

“If only I knew,” the Grand Panjandrum sighed, looking old and weary. “Our society has drifted off its course. The Trade Winds have forsaken us and we are stuck in a doldrums of our own making, caught in Horse Latitudes.” Topgallant had read about this in one of Lemuel’s books. It was a place feared by sailors, where ships lay trapped by a windless sea. In these latitudes, the water is flat as glass and a ship can be caught for weeks, not moving forward or back. It was Spanish sailors who gave it the name: when their ships lay in the stillness, supplies ran low and drinking water went first. There was nothing left for the horses, and these men cared deeply for their animals. They threw the doomed creatures overboard, weighed down, to save them from more miserable deaths. The superstitious ones know that ghost-horses still haunt these waters.

“When you find yourself in the Horse Latitudes,” said the G.P., “there’s nothing to do but wait and hope you make it out alive.”

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