"You had ought to think of your wife and children." "My life is insured," said Joseph Atkins.
"We ain't got no money and no jewelry, and no silver to leave them we love--all we've got to leave 'em is the price of our own lives," said Nahum Beals.
"I wish I had got my life insured," Andrew said.
"Don't talk so, Andrew," Fanny cried, with a shudder.
"My life is insured for two thousand dollars," Joe Atkins said, with an odd sort of pride.

"I had it done three years ago.

My lungs was sound as anybody's then, but that very next summer I worked up under that tin roof, and came out as wet as if I'd been dipped in the river, into an east wind, and got a chill.

It was the only time I ever struck luck--to get insured before that happened.

Nobody'd look at me now, and I dunno what they'd do.