An Inquiry about Insurances ebook

Mark Twain ponders the usefulness of insurance coverage.  "Coming down from Sacramento the other night, I found on a center-table in the saloon of the steamboat, a pamphlet advertisement of an Accident Insurance Company.  It interested me a good deal, with its General Accidents, and its Hazardous Tables, and Extra-Hazardous furniture of the same description, and I would like to know something more about it.  It is a new thing to me.  I want to invest if I come to like it.  I want to ask merely a few questions of the man who carries on this Accident shop".