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And when he yells, the tigers will know him for a jackal 

 and will fall upon him. " 



"And the thing befell exactly so, and the jackal," 

 concluded the goose, "met the fate of one who^le^ye^ his 

 roper party." 1 



If' this ancient story of detecting fraud by plafcing the 

 suspect in his original environment and watching develop- 

 ^ ments, reminds us of David Harum's tale of the canal barge- 

 man who was identified by the call of "Low Bridge, " it will 

 but serve to prove the claim that there are in reality only 

 forty-seven separate and distinct story plots in the world, 

 all others being mere variations. That two of these, sepa- 

 rated by all of civilization, should turn on the same point but 

 emphasizes indeed, as the goose declared, howp. 



