And you, an open-air man, talk of shutting yourself up?

Surely he won't chain an open-air man like you to a wretched desk all your time?

You see, I spent all my life in the open, and I reckon I'm an open-air man.

The open-air man or woman "side-steps" sickness.

Soon they were all talking at once, rumbling and roaring as big-chested open-air men will, when whisky has whipped their taciturnity.