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Show They Insured Him. The ways and means of insuranca agents for securing customers are many and varied. The modus operandi seems to be to get the victim interested and then bombard him with argument, eloquence elo-quence and statistics, and it is in the first that the real genius of the business comes in. A merchant was writing at his desk the other day when two of the craft entered. en-tered. Being well dressed and prosper-ous.looking, prosper-ous.looking, he rose to receive them and inquired their business. "Lwant, " said one, "to introduce to you my friend, Mr. Booker, who is a well known gentleman living here, and special agent for the Bluster Life Insurance In-surance company." "I am pleased to meet Mr. Booker," returned the merchant, "but I really don't know that I'm acquainted with you." "Indeed," said the first. - "Booker, old man, introduce me." Booker did, and the merchant, seeing the trick, burst out into hearty guffaw and was soon insured by the two friends, who, if they had entered in the ordinary stylo and stated their business, busi-ness, would prohably have been shown the door. London Tit-Bits. |