Well, yes, it was; still, if anybody were going to be killed, the
brakeman would be the most likely to be the victim. Go to the accident
insurance office and observe how little anxious they are to take such a
risk, and what an enormous premium they ask when they do take one! Here
is a man running a powder-factory. The insurance men will not touch him
at all! Now our man of success is like the brakeman, in a sense. He is
always on the train, always between the cars, always standing in the
frog. If any such thing as luck is out, it must hit him, or some other
brakeman like him. Certainly, it will not touch the man asleep in his
house