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.