“I know, all right,” said Joe, with a smile. “I’ve had lots of tips about big things that were going to be pulled off and been urged to get aboard while there was time. Ball players are known to get good salaries, and they’re deluged with circulars and market tips of all kinds. But I never yet tried to beat Wall Street at its own game. You know what they say of it, that ‘it’s a crooked street with a graveyard at one end of it and a river at the other.’”