It was winter and the cold was fierce, but we made four hundred miles with the hand-sledge across the snow, and when I came out with some fingers frozen I was nine pounds heavier.

Used to sit in my office afterwards and dream about the glittering lakes and the stiff white pines; saw them crowding round the lonely camps, when I ought to have been studying the market reports.
Well, I couldn't concentrate on buying and selling things.

Betting on the market and getting after other people's money seemed a pretty mean business." He paused and added with a twinkle: "That's how I felt then, and I don't know that I've changed my opinions much." "All the same, you're anxious to make your mining pay." "It isn't logical, but I was born a white man and had got civilized.

You can't altogether get rid of what you're taught when young, and it's harder when the notions you inherit are backed by your training.

Well, I saw there was a danger of my turning out a hobo if I went back North without a job.