“I was in college, sir.”
“College? And you never worked anywhere else?”
“No, sir.”
“What college?”
“Yale.”
“Then you used to drink?”
“No, sir.”
“Why, all them college chaps drink! They’re a wild crowd, and they don’t do a thing but steam up at times. You must have had your little toots with the boys.”
“If by ‘little toots’ you mean drunks, you are mistaken. I suppose I have had as much sport as anybody, but I never took a drink of beer or liquor in my life!”
“Well, you’re a wonder! But you’ll have to look out now. Railroad men are worked pretty hard, especially firemen and engineers, and many of them brace up by drinking, especially when they have not had a wink of sleep for twenty-four hours, as sometimes happens. You’ll be tempted to do that some time.”