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if they possess one true friend. Shall I informyou how you may make yourself certain of havingat least eight staunch hearty friends, who willfeel the greatest interest in you during the wholecourse of your existence? Go, and insure yourlife, for a good round sum, at the office of one ofthe assurance companies. From the very mo-ment of your doing so, the directors of that com-pany will become your warm and sincere friends;friends, whom no neglect of yours, except neg-lecting to pay your annual premium, can alienate.The " how d'ye do ?" of other people is merelythe conventional phrase by which conversationis commenced, but with the gentlemen to whom Iallude it is a bond-fide inquiry. To them yourhealth is an object Of constant solicitude. Theywatch with anxious sympathy the expression ofyour countenance ; exult when your eye sparkleswith vivacity, and are depressed when your cheekis invaded by " the pale cast" of sickness. Andwhen at length the awful moment shall arrive,—

" For come it will, the day decreed by fate/'—that is to terminate your earthly career, their