Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences (1843)by Edgar Allan Poe Story copied from the Wikisource. Hey, diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle Since the world began there have been two Jeremys. The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham. He has been much admired by Mr. John Neal, and was a great man in a small way. The other gave name to the most important of the Exact Sciences, and was a great man in a great way—I may say, indeed, in the very greatest of ways. Ut canis a corio nunquam absterrebitur uncto. so he never lets go of his game. "No. 110 Dog Street"