stock L700,000.? lie pays his first installment, and belicitatos himself on having insuredproperty and at the same time pierced these d d Yankee concerns under the fifth rib. All goes weli lor half a year, and Farmer I lodge begins to think the goose permanently suspended at a gratifying al-itude. In the meantime the territory has been pretty well worked up and thefool crop exhausted.A fire in Shake Rag necessitates a ten per cent, assessment on the premium notes, which is cheerfully paid. Then there is a disastrous conflagra-! tion of a blacksmith shop in Dog Walk, j and a twenty per cent, assessment. | A stable burns down in Lower Hog | Thief, and another assessment. Before two years the policy holder has been: assessed two-thirds of his five years’! premium. Finally comes the flurry of the whole. A heavy final assessment i3 made Some pay and some swear ihev’il be d—d if they do, and the