AN HONEST MAN.
An insurance agent who started out ironi Chicago to do a little business in Iho reunirv. came along to an old tumble-down farm house, and started in for a risk. I’he farmer seemed to tako kindly to the idea, but wanted ♦;o learn all the particulars at first. Do you mean to say that 1 can get the old house insured for five hundred dollars r” he asked. “ Yes, 1 guess so." ” And the company is sound ? “ Sound as a dollar.” *’ And they pay promptly *?” “ Right on the nail.” ‘’And you mean to say that if 1 insure my house for five hundred dollars and she burns down the companv will pay that sum ?” “ That’s it.” “ Then go ahead and insure, and if you come batdi this way to-morrow you might as well stop and view the ruins, and report to the coQipany that a defective flue carried her while the family was al a praver
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1164, 2 October 1882, Page 2
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159AN HONEST MAN. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1164, 2 October 1882, Page 2
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