It would establish at once his independence and furnish concrete proof to Mary V that his determination to fly was based on sound business principles.
Supposing he only took up four or five passengers a day, he would make more money than he could earn in two weeks at any other occupation.
Bland seemed to read this thought.

"You can count on an average of ten a day, bo--that's a hundred dollars.

Sometimes, like on Sundays, it would run to two and three hundred bones.

I guess that will let you throw your feet under the table regular--what ?" "What about you ?" Johnny asked, looking up at him studiedly.
"Me?
I'll tell yuh, bo.

You give me the second ten bucks you take in.
You keep the rest until the tenth passenger, and give me that, and then the fifteenth.