This was my bed all the time I stayed with these people, though made more convenient by degrees, as I began to learn their language and make my wants known.
She made me seven shirts, and some other linen, of as fine cloth as could be got, which indeed was coarser than sackcloth; and these she constantly washed for me with her own hands.

She was likewise my school-mistress, to teach me the language.

When I pointed to anything, she told me the name of it in her own tongue, so that in a few days I was able to call for whatever I had a mind to.

She was very good-natured, and not above forty feet high, being little for her age.
She gave me the name of Grildrig, which the family took up, and afterwards the whole kingdom.

The word imports what the Latins call _nanunculus_, the Italians _homunceletino_, and the English _mannikin_.
To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country.