Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some
exceptions noted below. Original small caps are now uppercase. Italics
look _like this_. The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby
assigns it to the public domain. Original page images are available
from the Library of Congress, at https://lccn.loc.gov/90101687.
Page 5. The illustration under “The Operation of the Cups is thus”
is retained as originally printed, with the numerals flipped 180°
horizontally. The numerals in the illustration of the “pudding” on page
12 are also flipped.
Page 12. Right single quotation mark inserted after “before their teeth
can take possession of it.”
Page 22. “hole in on of their legs” to “hole in one of their legs”.
Page 24. Right single quotation mark inserted after “look about him
before he goes;”.
Page 27. “hundred conciets may be shewed” to “hundred conceits may be
shewed”. Also, “beholders will wonder bow they came” to “beholders will
wonder how they came”.
Page 30. “you lay the waked side downward” to “you lay the waxed side
downward”.
Page 47. Unbalanced left parenthesis removed from “mouth as before,
(the company will be laughing”.
Page 60. In “kings away, and adding but one other card, then taking
them up again, and blowing upon them, will shew you them transformed
into blank cards, white on both sides,”, the “one” was originally
printed “on”, and “on” was originally “one”.
Page 61. Comma is removed from original “put them into your hands; also
let, them”.
Page 89. One “city” removed from “and diverting enough, both in city
city and country”.
Page 93. Single quotation mark removed from “gentlemen you ‘see my box
is full”.
Page 105. One “put” removed from “quantity of quick-silver, and put put
so much”. Also “qnick-silver” to “quick-silver”.