A Ballad upon the Popish Plot and region (“From Pulpit to Pot / They talk’d of a Plot” [1.5-6]), as well as the fear invoked in the general population (“frighted with Fire-balls, their heads turned round” [1.4]), but then proposes a rational and just correction of these effects. The majority of the rest of the ballad then lists the occupational types, personal characteristics, and machinations of the participants in the plot. The first is a politician “of Body unsound,” who intends to slander the Pope and the current King, Charles II, until both are forced out of power (2.1, 8). The narrator then describes the personal
The Animal-Cracker Plot is a tropical world occupying the same star system as Krishna, de Camp's primary setting for the "Viagens Interplanetarias" series. As dated in "The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens" and the 1959 version of de Camp's essay "The Krishna Stories", the action of "The Animal-Cracker Plot" takes place in the year 2120 CE. One of Koshay's later operations is the subject of the story "Git Along!" set on the planet Osiris. The Animal-Cracker Plot "The Animal-Cracker Plot" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, a story in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series.