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An agent with both smiles and nods, / Asked Jones to buy his lightning rods;
Said Jones, "You have made a blunder, / I fear not lightning but the thunder.
"Others you may go a frightening, / I tremble not at the lightning;
Those that are scared at them, I wonder, / But I own I dread the thunder."
"I know," said agent, "It is true, / Thunder's most dangerous of the two";
Said Jones, "Set me up thunder rods, / And from my mind it will take loads."
Said agent, "Lightning easy glides, / O'er these brass tips it smoothly slides, / But when the thunder loudly rolls, / These nickel tips it soon controls.
But Jones, you are a man of sense, / You see thunder rods are more expense";
Said Jones, "I care not for the cost, / Safety is what I prize the most."
Said agent, "Biggest bolt of thunder / Will be harmless as coal cinder;
You then can smile while each explodes, / When we get up your thunder rods. "