"My friend Dickinson," said the colonel, "is a very witty fellow. He
made a very witty reply lately. He had been sent down to a certain
celebrated seaside resort by his physician for a rest and a change, and
it was understood that he was to spend at least a month there, but at
the end of a week he turned up again in his home town, and when people
asked him why he had come back so soon, his reply was:
"Well, you see, the doctor sent me down there for a rest and a change,
and I went down and tried it; but by the end of a week I found that the
waiters at the hotel were getting all the change, and the man that kept
the hotel got all the rest, and so I just had to come home to
recopperate, you know."