[Mypgp-devel] ime to Commodore Barron:-
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From: Murallies A. <tac...@oc...> - 2009-08-14 00:07:51
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Sitions, and finally covered his name with ridicule and confusion. An impudent woman, known as Mary Tofts, declared to the world, that, instead of a human child, she had given birth to a litter of rabbits. How such a ridiculous tale ever found believers, it is impossible to conceive; but such was the case. All England, with the very small exception of those who united the possession of learning with common sense, was imbued with the frenzy. The price of warrens was abated to a mere song, and for a season a Londoner would as readily have eaten a baked child as a roasted rabbit. The children of men were believed to populate the burrows, a |