Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1913 — Lesson From the Past. [ARTICLE]

Lesson From the Past.

The agent of the accident Insurance company had tackled Noah. "According to your own story, uncle,” he said, "you are going to be afloat in a short time in a ship built •oil dry land, without any motive power, and you don’t know a thing about sailing a vessel, anyhow. You .can’t tell what may happen to you. Don’t you think you’d better take out isome accident insurance?" "Young man,” said Noah, “I’ve lived tto be 600 years old and I’ll be still « alive when you and your insurance .company have perished from the face ,of the earth. Will you please step off ;the gangplank? You’re in the way of the animals that are trying to come aboard.” Noah, as we learn from the records, ■•was no victim of misplaced confluence, either. He lingered 350 years after this incident.