Marriage Contract

My goal's to reach a hundred my friend he said to me. What, runs in cricket, drinking pints? No years you dope, said he. I want to live to be a ton, a century I must reach. Why on earth do you want to live that long, you always say life's a beach? Yes, well I used to think that way, I was a kid and not mature I've got a different outlook now, since I'm married and secure. Aha said I, I smell a rat. She's begun to turn you round. She's put ideas into your head, where before not one was found. No, no, he blustered, going red My new wife knows her place. Yes, right behind you with a stick I thought, like a racehorse in a race. Well why this idea that you have to live to be that old? That's another seventy years away three score and ten all told. I know all that and I'm afraid, that it's just got to be. For the mortgage that I've taken out, will be just paid off, you see.