Quotation from: The People of the Abyss

Written by: Jack London


I went over into a dark corner where I had observed other men going and
found the water. Then I returned and attacked the skilly. It was coarse
of texture, unseasoned, gross, and bitter. This bitterness which
lingered persistently in the mouth after the skilly had passed on, I
found especially repulsive. I struggled manfully, but was mastered by my
qualms, and half-a-dozen mouthfuls of skilly and bread was the measure of
my success. The man beside me ate his own share, and mine to boot,
scraped the pannikins, and looked hungrily for more.

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