“TO INSURE HIS LIFE”
! «• A HUMOROUS REQUEST. 1 The following letter recently reached a Lyttelton legal firm from a correspondent whose birthplace is Egypt:— To Mr?. Professor Dear Sir: 1 am remitting your most highly honourable excellency the sum of £4 6d to remit to his honourable ecclency the insurance Agent for the purpose of guaranteeing my carcase 50 years after I am not dead. I most humbly beseach your ecclency to have patientce until will be aide to refund to you 20s yours just flues, i shall do so in person, the short and long of it; will you be so kind as to con descent to oblige me and remit the enclosed sum to the honourable insurance Agent and tell him I am not dead yet and not likely to be for another 50 years, so T don’t intent to pay any more towards a very much alive man any long i will insure myself next time after i am dead like the Scotsman insured his property after it ww burnt down. I hope you are on. your feet again well and hearty, if not insure yourself and leave the money and i will do the same after and leave you the money in turn ; fair exchange no robbery yours
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 September 1924, Page 7
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