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1  Jurgis talked lightly about work, because he was young.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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2  He brought out the placard, which was quite a work of art.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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3  Promptly at seven the next morning Jurgis reported for work.
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4  Jurgis was confident of his ability to get work for himself, unassisted by any one.
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5  Meantime, heedless of all these things, the men upon the floor were going about their work.
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6  The work which Jurgis was to do here was very simple, and it took him but a few minutes to learn it.
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7  In a minute or two, however, it began slowly to revolve, and then the men upon each side of it sprang to work.
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8  Afterward they went outside, wandering about among the mazes of buildings in which was done the work auxiliary to this great industry.
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9  While there are so many who are anxious to work as you wish, there is no occasion for incommoding yourself with those who must work otherwise.
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10  This makes it a cause for congratulation that by modern methods a very few men can do the painfully necessary work of head-cracking for the whole of the cultured world.
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11  As Jurgis came in, the first cattle of the morning were just making their appearance; and so, with scarcely time to look about him, and none to speak to any one, he fell to work.
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12  Brother Jonas had gotten his job, and was pushing a truck in Durham's; and the killing gang at Brown's continued to work early and late, so that Jurgis grew more confident every hour, more certain of his mastership.
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13  This floor was half an inch deep with blood, in spite of the best efforts of men who kept shoveling it through holes; it must have made the floor slippery, but no one could have guessed this by watching the men at work.
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14  There was no end to the advantages of the house, as he set them forth, and he was not silent for an instant; he showed them everything, down to the locks on the doors and the catches on the windows, and how to work them.
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15  Unlike the place they had left, all this work was done on one floor; and instead of there being one line of carcasses which moved to the workmen, there were fifteen or twenty lines, and the men moved from one to another of these.
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16  It was arranged that they should leave the following spring, and meantime Jurgis sold himself to a contractor for a certain time, and tramped nearly four hundred miles from home with a gang of men to work upon a railroad in Smolensk.
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17  Passing down the avenue to work that morning he had seen two boys leaving an advertisement from house to house; and seeing that there were pictures upon it, Jurgis had asked for one, and had rolled it up and tucked it into his shirt.
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