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He lighted a cigar, and settled himself more comfortably in his chair. "Well," he answered, "I'm going with you, but you'll have to buy my ticket to Vancouver. It cleaned me out to get here. We'd a difficulty with a blame gunboat last season, and the boss went back on me. Sealing's not what is used to be. Anyway, we can fix the thing up later. I won't keep you from your friends."
Harold Bindloss - Masters of the Wheat-Lands

You'll have to start right away if it's to be done this year. I've my eye upon a schooner." He lighted a cigar, and settled himself more comfortably in his chair. "Well," he said, "I'm coming with you, but you'll have to buy my ticket to Vancouver. It cleaned me out to get here. We'd a difficulty with a blame gunboat last season, and the boss went back on me. Sealing's not what it used to be.
Harold Bindloss - Hawtrey's Deputy
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