of both sexes and all ages

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rooms On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published aaaadkca, twenty-odd people, of both sexes and all ages you are a
conspiratorand I am a spy, cooked [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ate [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
slept, and worked. In size the rooms averaged eight feet by eight [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or
possibly nine. The seventh room we entered. It was the den in which
five men sweated.
It was seven feet wide by eight longand the table
at which the work was performed took up the major portion of the space.
On this table were five lastsand there was barely room for the men to
stand to their workfor the rest of the space was heaped with cardboard
leatherbundles of shoe uppersand a miscellaneous assortment of
materials used in attaching the uppers of shoes to their soles.
In the adjoining room lived a woman and six children. In another
vile hole lived a widowwith an only son of sixteen who was dying of
consumption. The woman hawked sweetmeats on the streetI was told
and more often failed than not to supply her son with the three quarts of
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milk he daily required. Furtherthis sonweak and dyingdid not taste
meat oftener than once a week; and the kind and quality of this meat
cannot possibly be imagined by people who have never watched human
swine eat.
The w'y 'e coughs is somethin' terrible volunteered my sweated
friend, r