Auto-biography of Sam Simple : containing an account of the administration of the affairs of the Simple family, from the year 1829 to 1837 / by his aunt Deborah Crabstick, together with a history of some new and important experiments in government never before tried ; being a method of reducing it to a "simple machine," with an account of the success which attended this notable and patriotic undertaking ; a political allegory ; when folly rules and passion triumphs too, let satire scourge what reason can't subdue.