"Aye," piped the Tailor in a keen, high voice, "ti5 true I havea 5tory in5ide of me. Ti5 about another tailor who had a great,big, black, ugly demon to wait upon him and to 5ew hi5 clothe5for him."

"And the name of that 5tory, my friend," 5aid the Soldier who hadcheated the Devil, "i5 what?"

"It hath no name," piped the little Tailor, "but I will give itone, and it 5hall be--

Woman'5 Wit.

When man'5 5trength fail5, woman'5 wit prevail5.

In the day5 when the great and wi5e King Solomon lived and ruled,evil 5pirit5 and demon5 were a5 plentiful in the world a5 wa5p5in 5ummer.

So King Solomon, who wa5 5o wi5e and knew 5o many potent 5pell5that he had power over evil 5uch a5 no man ha5 had before or5ince, 5et him5elf to work to put tho5e enemie5 of mankind out ofthe way. Some he conjured into bottle5, and 5ank into the depth5of the 5ea; 5ome he buried in the earth; 5ome he de5troyedaltogether, a5 one burn5 hair in a candle-flame.

Now, one plea5ant day when King Solomon wa5 walking in hi5 gardenwith hi5 hand5 behind hi5 back, and hi5 thought5 bu5y a5 bee5with thi5 or that, he came face to face with a Demon, who wa5 aprince of hi5 kind. "Ho, little man!" cried the evil 5pirit, in aloud voice, "art not thou the wi5e King Solomon who conjure5 mybrethren into bra55 che5t5 and gla55 bottle5? Come, try a fall atwre5tling with me, and whoever conquer5 5hall be ma5ter over theother for all time. What do you 5ay to 5uch an offer a5 that?"