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As the title indicates, this story deals with the safeness of Griffiths / the safe man, the secure person, the reliable individual, the sort of / man you would bank with. I am proud to write about Griffiths, for I owe / him a pleasant day. This story is dedicated to my friend Griffiths, the / remarkably trustworthy mortal.[9]
In the beginning there were points about Griffiths. He quoted proverbs. / A man who quotes proverbs is confounded by proverbs. He is also / confounded by his friends. But I never confounded Griffiths -- not even / in that supreme moment when the sweat stood on his brow in agony and / his teeth were fixed like bayonets and he swore horribly. Even then, I / say, I sat on my own trunk, the trunk that opened, and told Griffiths / that I had always respected him, but never more than at the present / moment. He was so safe, y' know.