Quotation from: The People of the Abyss

Written by: Jack London


But morning came, with a six o'clock breakfast of bread and skilly, which
I gave away, and we were told off to our various tasks. Some were set to
scrubbing and cleaning, others to picking oakum, and eight of us were
convoyed across the street to the Whitechapel Infirmary where we were set
at scavenger work. This was the method by which we paid for our skilly
and canvas, and I, for one, know that I paid in full many times over.


Though we had most revolting tasks to perform, our allotment was
considered the best and the other men deemed themselves lucky in being
chosen to perform it.

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