Quotation from: The People of the Abyss

Written by: Jack London


There was one, however, who was still young, and who, I am sure, will in
the end make it out. He had gone to the United States as a young fellow,
and in fourteen years' residence the longest period he had been out of
work was twelve hours. He had saved his money, grown too prosperous, and
returned to the mother-country. Now he was standing in line at the
spike.


For the past two years, he told me, he had been working as a cook. His
hours had been from 7 a.m. to 10.30 p.m., and on Saturday to 12.30
p.m.--ninety-five hours per week, for which he had received twenty
shillings, or five dollars.

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