Seems to me the answer is.
"Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produces by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master".
maybe...it seems it to me though.
Swift was criticized for the ideas satirized in Gulliver's Travels because he found fault with English political parties.
The novel by Swift is itself highly critical of the English customs and government, country's religious struggle and so forth.
For instance, the two main parties in England, the Tories and Whigs are satirized by Tramecksans and Slamecksans of Lilliput. As the Slamecksans wear low heels and the Tramecksans wear high heels on their shoes, which makes them seem ridiculous and Swift criticizes King George II for his sympathy for a style of shoe.
In addition, it satirizes the divide between Catholics and Protestants, the Big Endians believed the egg should be cracked from the wider end whereas, the little Endians believed eggs should be cracked from the smaller end.
In highlighting the difference between Catholics and the protestants Swift makes the disagreement over religion seem ridiculous.
It means sign in this case. this is an example of a homonym.
By the time Scout is in the second grade, tormenting Boo Radley is a thing of the past and Scout and Jem’s games take them further up the street and past Mrs. Dubose’s house. Mrs. Dubose lives alone with a black servant named Jessie and is rumored to carry a concealed pistol. Scout and Jem hate her, as she’s mean and responds viciously to even polite greetings. As time goes on, Jem gets bolder and insists that he and Scout need to run all the way to the post office—past Mrs. Dubose’s house—to meet Atticus in the evenings. But most nights, Atticus finds Jem enraged by something Mrs. Dubose said. He encourages Jem to understand that Mrs. Dubose is ill and greets her heartily every evening.
