"I don't, and I hope it won't amount to anything. I've been paid enough for what was done by the boom it gave my business."
"Of course, you an' Dan are bound to have the best end of it."
"Why didn't you stop an' do the same thing?"
"'Cause I had sense enough to look out for myself first."
"But you know how to swim."
"What of that? It's mighty risky catchin' hold of people in the water, an' I don't mean to take any chances. How much have you made to-day?"
When Teddy told him, the expert in rowing looked decidedly envious.
"You've got all that money in one day?"
"Yes; but I sent the most of it home to mother."
"It's funny what luck some folks have, when them as knows the business twice as well don't much more'n earn their salt," Sam said, as if to himself, and before he could continue Dan arrived.