Quotation from: The People of the Abyss

Written by: Jack London


"Then you've got to do your task, pick four pounds of oakum, or clean an'
scrub, or break ten to eleven hundredweight o' stones. I don't 'ave to
break stones; I'm past sixty, you see. They'll make you do it, though.
You're young an' strong."


"What I don't like," grumbled the Carter, "is to be locked up in a cell
to pick oakum. It's too much like prison."


"But suppose, after you've had your night's sleep, you refuse to pick
oakum, or break stones, or do any work at all?" I asked.

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