They're mostly grown." "I will take board and room for two weeks, at least," said Mr.Gregory, who seemed to be a man of action.
For almost a week the insurance agent plied his vocation assiduously but fruitlessly.

The farmers and the citizens of Tinkletown were slow to take up insurance.

They would talk crops and politics with the obliging Mr.Gregory, but that was all.

And yet, his suavity won for him many admirers.

There were not a few who promised to give him their insurance if they concluded to "take any out." Only one man in town was willing to be insured, and he was too old to be comforting.