An insurance salesman was getting nowhere in his efforts to sell some disability insurance to a farmer. He wasn’t getting anywhere, so he thought he”d try to sell a life policy instead.

“Look at it this way,” he said finally. “How would your wife carry on if you should die?”

“Well . . .” drawled the weather-beaten man, “I don’t reckon that’d be any concern of mine — long as she behaves herself while I’m alive.”