Bob wore the effigy, as his master called it, of a turnspit.
The monikins were by far too polished to crowd about us when we landed, with an impertinent and troublesome curiosity.

So far from this, we were permitted to approach the capital itself without let or hindrance.

As it is less my intention to describe physical things than to dwell upon the philosophy and the other moral aspects of the Leaphigh world, little more will be said of their houses, domestic economy, and other improvements in the arts, than may be gathered incidentally, as the narrative shall proceed.

Let it suffice to say on these heads, that the Leaphigh monikins, like men, consult, or think they consult--which, so long as they know no better, amounts to pretty much the same thing--their own convenience in all things, the pocket alone excepted; and that they continue very laudably to do as their fathers did before them, seldom making changes, unless they may happen to possess the recommendation of being exotics; when, indeed, they are sometimes adopted, probably on account of their possessing the merit of having been proved suitable to another state of things.
Among the first persons we met, on entering the great square of Aggregation, as the capital of Leaphigh is called when rendered into English, was my Lord Chatterino.

He was gayly promenading with a company of young nobles, who all seemed to be enjoying their youth, health, rank, and privileges with infinite gusto.