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Sketches New and Old

CHAPTER VI
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I do not care for politics--even agriculture does not excite me.

But to me now there is a charm about a railway collision that is unspeakable.
There is nothing more beneficent than accident insurance.

I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg.

I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficent institution.

In all my experience of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.


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