In 1773 there appeared in the Public Advertiser one of Franklin's cleverest hoaxes, " An Edict of the King of Prussia," proclaiming that the island of Britain was a colony of Prussia, having been settled by Angles and Saxons, having been protected by Prussia, having been defended by Prussia against France in the war just past, and never having been definitely freed from Prussia's rule; and that, therefore, Great Britain should now submit to certain taxes laid by Prussia - the taxes being identical with those laid upon the American colonies by Great Britain. [Please select]
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And two days later he made bold to crush the judge's critics with letters from the same versatile pen that never failed to aid in the furtherance of its master's hoaxes: To the Editor: Prof. [Please select]
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It is a matter of common form for the evening newspapers to talk of the _Spectator_ dog stories as hoaxes, and to refer in their playful, way to "another _Spectator_ dog." [Please select]
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It might not then unnaturally have been supposed that a person undertaking to edit and reprint these stories would have found a considerable number that showed signs of being hoaxes. [Please select]
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"I've no doubt," interposed Peterkin, "that he means cuttle, which is the short name for cuttle-fish, which, in such an inland place as this, must of course be hoaxes." [Please select]
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Most of the arithmetical feats of trained animals are hoaxes regulated by their sense of smell, sight, touch and taste. [Please select]
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