fire-underwriters

Updated: May 9, 2025

I never supposed I was a moral coward, but I must be; otherwise I would weeks ago have called an open-air mass-meeting of the apple-tree agents, the fire-underwriters, the patent pavers and the others, and confessed to them that their attentions were misdirected, and that I was not in fact the fortunate being whose lot they sought to better.

Eugene Field - The House: An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice