1 Also, after the hams had been smoked, there would be found some that had gone to the bad.
2 Madame Haupt was frying pork and onions, and had her door half open to let out the smoke.
3 Then they ate, and afterward sat and smoked and talked more about America, and how they found it.
4 And along with the thickening smoke they began to notice another circumstance, a strange, pungent odor.
5 It might have come from the center of the world, this smoke, where the fires of the ages still smolder.
6 It was a study in colors now, this smoke; in the sunset light it was black and brown and gray and purple.
7 So he came at last to the stockyards, to the black volcanoes of smoke and the lowing cattle and the stench.
8 Jonas pushed a truck loaded with hams from the smoke rooms on to an elevator, and thence to the packing rooms.
9 They were all of them too hungry to talk; but afterward they sat upon the steps and smoked, and the farmer questioned his guest.
10 One might go down to this floor and see the pickling rooms, where the hams were put into vats, and the great smoke rooms, with their airtight iron doors.
11 The line of the buildings stood clear-cut and black against the sky; here and there out of the mass rose the great chimneys, with the river of smoke streaming away to the end of the world.
12 There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there.
13 Little by little the scene grew plain: towering, black buildings here and there, long rows of shops and sheds, little railways branching everywhere, bare gray cinders underfoot and oceans of billowing black smoke above.
14 Behind her is Kotrina, making her way cautiously, staggering beneath a similar burden; and half a minute later there appears old Grandmother Majauszkiene, with a big yellow bowl of smoking potatoes, nearly as big as herself.
15 These buildings, made of brick and stained with innumerable layers of Packingtown smoke, were painted all over with advertising signs, from which the visitor realized suddenly that he had come to the home of many of the torments of his life.
16 At night they would sit huddled round this stove, while they ate their supper off their laps; and then Jurgis and Jonas would smoke a pipe, after which they would all crawl into their beds to get warm, after putting out the fire to save the coal.
17 "De-vyled" ham was made out of the waste ends of smoked beef that were too small to be sliced by the machines; and also tripe, dyed with chemicals so that it would not show white; and trimmings of hams and corned beef; and potatoes, skins and all; and finally the hard cartilaginous gullets of beef, after the tongues had been cut out.
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