A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)

[benbreen]

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bottleman/

[tahoupt]

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottle_Conjuror

[jamal-kumar]

This is ultra funny...

And I think it's worth noting the gullible credulity of people isn't a hell of a lot better these days.

[pitched]

So many people waiting around patiently for an hour before starting to complain is crazy. People would definitely still fall for the prank today but that feels so tame for what a huge reaction there was.

[dhosek]

It reminds me of the Royal Cameleopard from Huck Finn.

[Igelau]

Some of those long-s ligatures are wild.

[barefeg]

I didn’t understand a word

[Stratoscope → barefeg]

Read it out loud (or verbally in your mind) and when a word doefn't make fence, try pronouncing the f's like s's.