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1  They had been thinking of letting little Stanislovas go to work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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2  Ona was now making about thirty dollars a month, and Stanislovas about thirteen.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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3  Then Ona added that Teta Elzbieta had decided that little Stanislovas would have to work too.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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4  As a result of this, little Stanislovas conceived a terror of the cold that was almost a mania.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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5  They all had to go, even little Stanislovas, who was ill from overindulgence in sausages and sarsaparilla.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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6  Then at night he would go straight home, helping Ona and Stanislovas, or often putting the former on a car.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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7  One bitter morning in February the little boy who worked at the lard machine with Stanislovas came about an hour late, and screaming with pain.
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8  Next to Stanislovas, who was now fifteen, there was a girl, little Kotrina, who was two years younger, and then two boys, Vilimas, who was eleven, and Nikalojus, who was ten.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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9  Three days later there came another heavy snowstorm, and Jonas and Marija and Ona and little Stanislovas all set out together, an hour before daybreak, to try to get to the yards.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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10  Some would ride in the cars, if the cars were running; but when you are making only five cents an hour, as was little Stanislovas, you do not like to spend that much to ride two miles.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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11  And so Stanislovas went down a long stone corridor, and up a flight of stairs, which took him into a room lighted by electricity, with the new machines for filling lard cans at work in it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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12  His mind would hang upon the worst possibilities; he saw Ona ill and tortured, Marija out of her place, little Stanislovas unable to get to work for the snow, the whole family turned out on the street.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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13  Meantime Teta Elzbieta had taken Stanislovas to the priest and gotten a certificate to the effect that he was two years older than he was; and with it the little boy now sallied forth to make his fortune in the world.
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14  There could be no trifling in a case like this, it was a matter of life and death; little Stanislovas could not be expected to realize that he might a great deal better freeze in the snowdrift than lose his job at the lard machine.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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15  Then he set some one else at a different job, and showed the lad how to place a lard can every time the empty arm of the remorseless machine came to him; and so was decided the place in the universe of little Stanislovas, and his destiny till the end of his days.
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16  All that they knew how to do was to hold the frozen fingers near the fire, and so little Stanislovas spent most of the day dancing about in horrible agony, till Jurgis flew into a passion of nervous rage and swore like a madman, declaring that he would kill him if he did not stop.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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17  The oldest of them, little Stanislovas, was but thirteen, and small for his age at that; and while the oldest son of Szedvilas was only twelve, and had worked for over a year at Jones's, Jurgis would have it that Stanislovas should learn to speak English, and grow up to be a skilled man.
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