Headless Hoax
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Monstrosities, Electricity, Charlatanry |
Reports on an 'Irish gentleman' who reasoned that the sea serpent was an electric eel because he had received an electric shock from a sprat gorged by the beast. Points out that the same person might expect to be shot by the charge in a bird recently shot. | |
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