STUPIDITY PERSONIFIED.

M. BOURET, a French farmer-general, of immense fortune, _but stupid to a

proverb_, being one day present, when two noblemen were engaged, in a

party, at piquet, one of them happening to play a wrong card, exclaimed,

"Oh, what a Bouret I am!" Offended at this liberty, Bouret said

instantly, "Sir, you are an ass." "_The very thing I meant_," replied

the other.