The Biter Bit.

There is an old story of a 'Jew and a Quaker being shut up together, the result of which was, that the Quaker eat up the Jew and didn't leave a bit of him. That was a long time ago, but the Quaker being very tough survived till quite recently. He, however, met with his match at last. Having had the temerity to take the lease of a farm in England a few years ago, the result was that the Quaker was eaten up by his landlord, just as the Jew had been eaten up by the Quaker so long before. Since then, however, the late Quaker's landlord was compelled to mortgage his farm, and curiously enough the result of this was that the mortgagee eat up the landlord, just as the landlord had previously eaten up the Quaker, and the Quaker the Jew ! Strange to say, however, (according to the last 'Frisco mail) the mortgagee became involved in a lawsuit, and the result of this (as every one might be quite sure) was that his lawyer eat up the mortgagee, just as the mortgagee eat up the landlord, and as the landlord eat up his tenant, the Quaker, and as the Quaker eat up the Jew.

This story is quite true ! It is suggested that some talented individual should write a new children's tale book, and call it "The Cannibal Islands," and introduce this story in the place of "This is the House that Jack built." Of course the lawyer would be carried off to the Cannibal Island and there meet with Poetic Justice !