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Show Question for Question. "I shall discharge our butler," said Mr. Cumrox. "What's the trouble?" "He doesn't show me proper deference. defer-ence. When I am paying a man liberally, lib-erally, 1 consider it. his duty to. laugh at my jokes." "And won't he?" , "I don't think he can. He's an. English Eng-lish butler. When in a spirit of gentle gen-tle and condescending badinage T said to him, "Hawkins, can you tell me which came first, the chicken or the egg?' he said, 'Which did you order first, sir?' " |