1 To add to this there was the board of Jonas and Marija, about forty-five dollars.
2 I'll pay you thirty a month and board, and you can begin now, if you feel like it.
3 He paid good board, and was yet obliged to live in a family where nobody had enough to eat.
4 It would be a strange thing if a man like him could not support the family, with the help of the board of Jonas and Marija.
5 The sidewalk in front of the house was a platform made of half-rotten boards, about five feet above the level of the sunken street.
6 He had a sense of humor, and later on, when he became an old hand, he used to think it fun to board a streetcar and see what happened.
7 But because Marija was a human horse she merely laughed and went at it; it would enable her to pay her board again, and keep the family going.
8 They were hot and stiff as boards on top, and a little damp on the underside, when he awakened; but being hungry, he put them on and set out again.
9 The garret was lighted by a candle stuck upon a board; it had almost burned itself out, and was sputtering and smoking as Jurgis rushed up the ladder.
10 As it chanced, he had been hurt on a Monday, and had just paid for his last week's board and his room rent, and spent nearly all the balance of his Saturday's pay.
11 Both Jonas and Marija might soon be earning no more than enough to pay their board, and besides that there were only the wages of Ona and the pittance of the little boy.
12 As he must certainly be helpless for a couple of months, and had boarded there only six weeks, she decided very quickly that it would not be worth the risk to keep him on trust.
13 Her home was unthinkably filthy; you could not enter by the front door at all, owing to the mattresses, and when you tried to go up the backstairs you found that she had walled up most of the porch with old boards to make a place to keep her chickens.
14 And meantime, agents of the packers were gathering gangs of Negroes in the country districts of the far South, promising them five dollars a day and board, and being careful not to mention there was a strike; already carloads of them were on the way, with special rates from the railroads, and all traffic ordered out of the way.