The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-10
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Of a this table, Immediately in front of it,
conspicuous under the electric lamp handsome volume
Guide Practical Handbook of Gentity 1t was the only
book in the r0a home and it had been there only two days.
low satin robe had mentioned the oueen the existence OF
this bargain in the literature department Mrs Groary had been
studying the volume at moments and had it set ou
as exhibit Of culture.
The first to arrive was the widow Murchey who had only
Ito come from the end of the block where she lived in little
bungalow with her children; timid of
ner and wore black Wristbands She went into rapture over
Groarys costume. congratulated good for
tune in being the south slope Of the HILL where could
fine dresses Over the north sde where the prevailing
winds had blown the OIL ruined your shoes every time you
went people did light kitchen
fires for fear of an explosion.
Then Walter Blacks Mr. Mrs and grown
of the southwest lot they in real
tate in the city Mr. Black checked st expansive
and benevolent protective gold wachfob
his ample front Mrs Black also ample clothes
good Mrs Groars but her said that she hadn't
put them out to cabbage They fol-
back of the Groa fronting Edorado Road the other side
of the block Mr. Dumpey quiet little with shoulders
bowed and hands knotted by lifetime of toll He very
good at figures and distressed by these sudden uncertainties
which had invaded his life.
Next Rafhels had candy-store in town. a
very gentee young couple anxious to please everybody and
much distressed because had proven mposse they
were the of of the little lots" Hank,
lean and hacheaced with exasperang voice.
the next little lot and because he had been gold MINER
sidered himself authority oil leases After him his
enemy Mr. Dbb the lawyer who represented the absent
e of the northwest and had made trouble insisting
many techncaes difficult for nonlawyers understand
had tried hard separate the north half block
regarded traitor by those Of the south half Then
known but he impressed by his clothing
manner he reconcier, with suave voice,
talked great DEAL the only trouble being that
through little uncertain to what he had said
The Bromleys arrived elderly couple MEANS driving
big They brought with them the Lohkers
taers whom ordinarily they would have talked
taorshop but with these allies they
medium ots which sufficient drilling cutting
right the block had enabled them rest
with separate lease. Behind Sivons walking
from their house the northeast they pretenous
people, who looked down the of the neghborhood
without any cause for they drove secondhand
out OF date They the people who had this lease
everyone was sure they getting big rakeon
but there it. and nothing you
it, for the that all the others leasing
propositions had been secretly promised similar
With them Mr. Sahm, pasterer lived in tenn
poray garagehouse the little lot" adjoining Svons
amounted to nothing nevertheless he had
one who had camored most enuousy that
be moved at the lessons to put in
provision for compensation for the tomatoes
he had planted his lot The others to him
down. when to their dsmay Dumpery the carpen
ter arose declaring that seemed to him quite sensible
quest he had seven rows of himself and
son. and he thought the contract should proy
sion that the first well should be drilled was
not planted SO as to give the gardeners time reap
of their labor.
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