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They picked up their beer-cans and went out to their work. Silently Pelle gathered his possessions together and went to the foreman. He asked for his wages. "That's sudden," said the foreman. "You were getting on so well just now. What do you want to do now?" "I just want my wages," rejoined Pelle. What more he wanted, he himself did not know. And then he went home and put his room in order.
To grasp the reason for her being, one would have had to see the spiritless South Halstead Street world from which she had sprung one of those neighborhoods of old, cracked, and battered houses where slatterns trudge to and fro with beer-cans and shutters swing on broken hinges.
They picked up their beer-cans and went out to their work. Silently Pelle gathered his possessions together and went to the foreman. He asked for his wages. "That's sudden," said the foreman. "You were getting on so well just now. What do you want to do now?" "I just want my wages," rejoined Pelle. What more he wanted, he himself did not know. And then he went home and put his room in order.
It annoyed him additionally, perhaps, to see the expression of starry-eyed admiration on Babs' face as she looked at him across the untidy laboratory table, cluttered up with beer-cans. It is a matter of record that the American continents were discovered because ice-boxes were unknown in the fifteenth century. There being no refrigeration, meat did not keep.
So they hurry away to the nearest farms; the teams are harnessed, the waggons filled, and drawn down and emptied; the beer-cans go round cheerily, and the men work with a sort of savage joy at being able to do something, if not all, and stop the sluice on which so much depends.
You work and drink and bang each other over the head with your beer-cans or bottles " "You say that so contentedly you don't look behind things that's the point! I've seen so many people shipwrecked; for the poor man it's only one little step aside, and he goes to the dogs; and he himself believes he's a devilish fine fellow. But it was a piece of luck that you got out of it all!
To-night two vile men have been quarreling in the room underneath, and I have been drinking in all their brutal ugliness. Bah! To live in a place where there are not horrible women in wrappers, reeling, foul-smelling men, snuffling children with beer-cans! This is more of my "economy"! To-night I sat upon the edge of the bed and whispered, "To be free!
Picking her way, for the stairs were thick with mud from dirty boots and with droppings from pails, beer-cans, and milk-jugs, Mrs. Rowles went up the first flight. In the front room a woman's voice was scolding in strong language; in the back room a baby was wailing piteously.
You work and drink and bang each other over the head with your beer-cans or bottles " "You say that so contentedly you don't look behind things that's the point! I've seen so many people shipwrecked; for the poor man it's only one little step aside, and he goes to the dogs; and he himself believes he's a devilish fine fellow. But it was a piece of luck that you got out of it all!
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