SELF-EVIDENT.
The Colonel. "What was that noise I heard just now?"
His Nephew. "Oh! I was blowing up my Servant!"
The Colonel. "May I ask why?"
His Nephew. "Well—aw—you see he is such a confounded Idiot!"
The Colonel. "But did it never occur to you that if he weren't such a confounded Idiot he would never have been your Servant?"
THE CUT DIRECT.