Quotation from: The People of the Abyss

Written by: Jack London


I put my hand under his shirt and felt. The skin was stretched like
parchment over the bones, and the sensation produced was for all the
world like running one's hand over a washboard.


"Seven years o' bliss I 'ad," he said. "A good missus and three bonnie
lassies. But they all died. Scarlet fever took the girls inside a
fortnight."


"After this, sir," said the Carter, indicating the spread, and desiring
to turn the conversation into more cheerful channels; "after this, I
wouldn't be able to eat a workhouse breakfast in the morning."

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Part of a series of experiments in web preservation under the direction of Michael L. Nelson, Ph.D.