A Mexican Anecdote

The people of the Mexican capital had been told that the Americans eat children, and all these pledges of love had been removed, Lieutenant M., of the dragoons, having heard this story, accosted a man, and asked him if he knew where he could get "a nice fat boy for supper," adding that he was "very hungry,"

The astonished Mexican answered, with a doleful shake of the bead, "No hay."

"Well," said M., "as I'm hungry, I ain't particular; more...