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A series of playful anecdotes follows a celebrated performing pig whose apparent abilities — spelling, answering prompts, and humanlike comportment — entertain public audiences and inspire curiosity. Humorous editorial notes and illustrations accompany the narrative, offering explanations, historical allusions, and corrective asides. Episodes are used to satirize contemporary manners, party politics, and popular credulity, while the annotations expand on jokes and moral observations. The overall effect blends comic storytelling with learned digression to highlight social foibles through the pig’s performances and reception.
THE Editor is indebted to mere accident for his acquaintance with the following ſprightly performance; and, as it ſeemed to have been the Author’s intention to have written notes, from ſeveral detached papers having reference to the text, the Editor has taken the liberty to introduce them as ſuch, and add ſome trifling references by way of proof or illuſtration, which he hopes may not be deemed impertinent.
May 12, 1786.