1 Other bachelor homesteaders used canned milk, to save trouble.
2 It seemed that they must have agencies all over the country, to hunt out old and crippled and diseased cattle to be canned.
3 There were those who made the tins for the canned meat; and their hands, too, were a maze of cuts, and each cut represented a chance for blood poisoning.
4 When she went shopping she hugged the cans of soup, and she bought a mop or a side of bacon as though she were preparing for a reception.
5 She works in a canning factory, and all day long she handles cans of beef that weigh fourteen pounds.
6 She wears a white shirtwaist, which represents, perhaps, half a week's labor painting cans.
7 Jadvyga likewise paints cans, but then she has an invalid mother and three little sisters to support by it, and so she does not spend her wages for shirtwaists.
8 These bare places were grown up with dingy, yellow weeds, hiding innumerable tomato cans; innumerable children played upon them, chasing one another here and there, screaming and fighting.
9 There was a building to which the grease was piped, and made into soap and lard; and then there was a factory for making lard cans, and another for making soap boxes.
10 Marija was working for one of the independent packers, and was quite beside herself and outrageous with triumph over the sums of money she was making as a painter of cans.
11 It was not fit work for a woman, handling fourteen-pound cans all day.
12 In summer the stench of the warm lard would be nauseating, and in winter the cans would all but freeze to his naked little fingers in the unheated cellar.
13 They put these up in several grades, and sold them at several prices; but the contents of the cans all came out of the same hopper.
14 However that might be, the known facts were that a few weeks before the factory closed, Marija had been cheated out of her pay for three hundred cans.
15 So did they all--hand glasses, tin cans, scraps of scullery glass, harness room glass, and heavily embossed silver mirrors--all stopped.