"Is this your business?" he asked.
"What,—smashin' baggage?" inquired Ben.
"Is that what you call it?"
"Yes."
"Well, is that what you do for a living?"
"Yes," said Ben. "It's my profession, when I aint attendin' to my duties as a member of the Common Council."
"So you're a member of the city government?" asked Charles, amused.
"Do you have much to do that way?"
"I'm one of the Committee on Wharves," said Ben. "It's my business to see that they're right side up with care; likewise that nobody runs away with them in the night."