ON LIFE ASSURANCE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2100, 27 September 1875, Page 3

ON LIFE ASSURANCE.

The following lines are said to bo by "a child:"—. When poor papa was ta'en to heaven, And ilia was left to strive for Beven, With scarce enough for burial fees (So lingering was poor pa's disease) Though full of grief, we'd no d.espair, Belatiot;? spol^e go feind and fajp. Our grandpa said that he, fci' one Would think-, and see what could be done. Our udcl^ Wi'liam and our aunty Hoped we should never come to want. Bat mother's brothers talked the bes!-, A gMftt deal kinder than the re3t: They said that home they'd take us id!, Only their rooms were few and small. We'd promises from uncle Pago, To-push us forward —when of age. .They then went home ; but, 6top, I mis?. They gave us every one a kjsa. Agd, said, ■'•' Be goad, and mind mama, An 4we will he to you—papa !" So much engaged were they at home, For many'weeks they could not com?; Uotil they heard mama had founl A writing for five hundred pound, Which some insurance office paid, So ma commenced a genteel trade ; And then they came,~it seemed so funnj, — To beg mama to lend them money. But ma faid no, "No! if you are po:i'j A trifle willyour life iiißure j And then the 'office ' (our beat Mend), Whenever your good life shall end. Will comfort to your orphans send." —Exohange. ; :