History Jokes: 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; let as have a little girl, then."

The poor man, still more horrified, declared- that there were none of these in the village.

M. then turned to him and inquired, "Well, show me a market where I can get a nice piece of a full-grown man,"

This was too much for the Mexican, and he took to his heels m the twinkling of a jackknife.

From ANECDOTES OF GENERAL TAYLOR