THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE.
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An ingenious cardmaker published a pack of South-Sea playing-cards, which are now extremely rare, each card containing, besides the usual figures, of a very small size, in one corner, a caricature of a bubble-company, with appropriate verses underneath.
TREE CARICATURE[1]
One of the most famous bubbles was "Puckle's Machine Company," for discharging round and square cannon-balls and bullets, and making a total revolution in the art of war. Its pretensions to public favour were thus summed up on the eight of spades:
"A rare invention to destroy the crowd
Of fools at home instead of fools abroad.
Fear not, my friends, this terrible machine,
They're only wounded who have shares therein."
- ↑ Tree, surrounded by water; people climbing up the tree. One of a series of bubble cards, copied from the Bubblers' Medley, published by Carrington Bowles.
