1 "Yes, within a month," said poor Jurgis.
2 That was at the rate of ten and one-half dollars a week, or forty-five a month.
3 Ona was now making about thirty dollars a month, and Stanislovas about thirteen.
4 It was not for long, however; for a month or two later a dreadful calamity fell upon Marija.
5 One of them had been stolen long ago, and not a month passed that some one did not try to steal another.
6 Of this, only three hundred dollars had to be paid down, the balance being paid at the rate of twelve dollars a month.
7 Before another month was by, all the working members of his family had union cards, and wore their union buttons conspicuously and with pride.
8 There was the rent to pay, and still some on the furniture; there was the insurance just due, and every month there was sack after sack of coal.
9 And when they gave up the house plan and decided to rent, the prospect of paying out nine dollars a month forever they found just as hard to face.
10 And he was a faithful man, too; he was a man you might leave alone for a month, if only you had made him understand what you wanted him to do in the meantime.
11 Then Marija and Jonas were between them to take a third share in the house, which would leave only eight dollars a month for Jurgis to contribute to the payment.
12 The winter went, and the spring came, and found them still living thus from hand to mouth, hanging on day by day, with literally not a month's wages between them and starvation.
13 They had fooled the company, however, for her son was a skilled man, who made as high as a hundred dollars a month, and as he had had sense enough not to marry, they had been able to pay for the house.
14 They had learned that they would have to pay a rent of nine dollars a month for a flat, and there was no way of doing better, unless the family of twelve was to exist in one or two rooms, as at present.
15 The month of May was an exceptionally cool one, and his secret prayers were granted; but early in June there came a record-breaking hot spell, and after that there were men wanted in the fertilizer mill.
16 Only a month after Marija had become a beef-trimmer the canning factory that she had left posted a cut that would divide the girls' earnings almost squarely in half; and so great was the indignation at this that they marched out without even a parley, and organized in the street outside.
17 It would be convenient, downtown, to the children's place of work; but then Marija was on the road to recovery, and had hopes of getting a job in the yards; and though she did not see her old-time lover once a month, because of the misery of their state, yet she could not make up her mind to go away and give him up forever.
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