Vulgar words in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 355, February 7, 1829 (Page 1)
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This useful faculty of transformation also extended, in some measure, to the persons of others; for Dr. Bulwer gives the following _easy recipe_ for "setting a horse or ass' head" on a man's neck and shoulders:[3]--"Cut off the head of a horse or an ass _(before they be dead, otherwise the virtue or strength thereof will be less effectual,)_ and take an earthen vessel of a fit capacity to contain the same.