Welcome to the Horse House — Gulliver's Travels

Three miles with the gray horse brings Gulliver to a wattled longhouse where horses sit on mats and run domestic business. He still assumes civilized people have trained ordinary cattle exceptionally well, brings out trinkets for the master, and pinches his arms to check whether magic is deceiving him. The gray's authority keeps rougher horses from mistreating him. The reversal lands in the side building: Yahoos chained and eating raw flesh.

A sorrel servant lines Gulliver up beside the largest one, and master and servant repeat Yahoo until the resemblance horrifies him. Clothes hide the likeness from the horses; ass flesh and hay make him retch. He points at a passing cow and gets milk instead. At noon a visiting steed dines with circular mangers and orderly oats boiled in milk.

Gulliver removes his gloves when the gray wonders about his forefeet, learns a few words, and invents oat cakes with milk to survive. That evening the master gives him straw six yards from the Yahoo kennel. The hierarchy is fixed: he is the dressed exception in their household, not the guest who belongs. By nightfall he sleeps on straw within yards of the Yahoo pen, still unable to name what the horses already see in his face.