"All the same, I'm a business man.
Betting at the Board of Trade is my proper job and I've got to be satisfied with a week at a fishing camp now and then.

Adventure is for the pioneers, lumber men and railroad builders like my friend." Lister looked up.

He did not see why Vernon talked about him.
"My adventures don't count for much," he said.

"Sometimes a car went into a muskeg and we had to hustle to dig her out.

Sometimes the boys made trouble about their pay.