How Jack¹, having got rid of the old landlord, set up another to his mind, quarrelled with Martin, and turned him out of doors. How he pillaged² all his shops, and abolished his whole dispensatory. How the new landlord 95 laid about him, mauled Peter, worried Martin, and made the whole neighbourhood tremble. How Jack’s friends fell out among themselves, split into a thousand parties, turned all things topsy-turvy, till everybody grew weary of them; and at last, the blustering³ landlord dying, Jack was kicked out of doors, a new landlord 96 brought in, and Martin re-established. How this new landlord let Martin do what he pleased, and Martin agreed to everything his pious⁴ landlord desired, provided Jack might be kept low. Of several efforts Jack made to raise up his head, but all in vain; till at last the landlord died, and was succeeded by one 97 who was a great friend to Peter, who, to humble⁵ Martin, gave Jack some liberty. How Martin grew enraged⁶ at this, called in a foreigner 98 and turned out the landlord; in which Jack concurred⁷ with Martin, because this landlord was entirely⁸ devoted⁹ to Peter, into whose arms he threw himself, and left his country. How the new landlord secured Martin in the full possession of his former rights, but would not allow him to destroy Jack, who had always been his friend. How Jack got up his head in the North, and put himself in possession of a whole canton, to the great discontent of Martin, who finding also that some of Jack’s friends were allowed to live and get their bread in the south parts of the country, grew highly discontented with the new landlord he had called in to his assistance. How this landlord kept Martin in order, upon which he fell into a raging fever, and swore he would hang himself or join in with Peter, unless Jack’s children were all turned out to starve. Of several attempts to cure Martin, and make peace between him and Jack, that they might unite against Peter; but all made ineffectual by the great address of a number of Peter’s friends, that

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