WHEN HE WAS WANTED.
'- A Fifeshire farmer nad been advised from time to tints* to insure his house against fire. The agent, Sandy M'Lery, could never get the old man tb sign, and wag forced to listen to the familiar argument that "hia house would never gang on fire." The unexpected happened, however, and the neighbours were astonished when the old man^ instead of trying to save his goods, ran wildly up and down the village crying^- " Whaur's that man, Sandy, noo? Whaur'a that insuranoe chiel? Ye can never get m ,J?ody ,-when ye're needin' him."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8100, 27 August 1904, Page 3
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96WHEN HE WAS WANTED. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8100, 27 August 1904, Page 3
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