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In a work by this author, a father’s order to preserve three coats is disregarded by Peter, who eventually evicts (10[1])his brothers, Jack and Martin, for objecting. A character created by this author rejects human society after he meets a talking race of horses, the Houyhnhnms (10[1])(“WIN-ims”). An essay by this author, which imagines making “admirable (10[1])gloves for ladies and summer boots for gentlemen,” calculated that a nation contained one (10[1])hundred twenty thousand impoverished breeders. In that essay, (10[2])this author of A Tale of a Tub suggested “greatly lessen[ing] the number of Papists” by cannibalizing (10[1])Irish babies. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this Anglo-Irish author of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels. ■END■ (10[1])

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