"I was reading of an accident out West only yesterday."
"I am not going out West, Aunt Jane. I guess I'll reach New York right side up with care."
"What an expression, Benjamin!"
Ben laughed.
"Only boys' talk, aunty. It means all right."
"Don't you go on the steamboat, too, Benjamin?"
"I guess so."
"The boiler may explode."
"If everybody thought that, nobody would travel, Aunt Jane. It doesn't happen once in a thousand times."
At last Ben got ready.