The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-26
. By Upton Sinclair
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copyright. 1885. by Upton Sinclair

Bunny City to trial Of the
Grandma did cry faint just up her
studio and locked the and did appear
meals When Bunny ready to he went and knocked
the Grandma let him into her laboratory Of paints and
oils and high art Her face drawn but gm and only her
witheed eyelds gave her away Little boy" she saidhe
was still that to her he would grow upte boy
victim of the old mems That nothing
but it. and day. long I'm gone you'll
understand"
She kissed him without sound and he stole out with tears
running down his cheeks and feeling somehow he himself
committing crime still that way when
been found dead in bed He three day leave home
and attend the funeral and had say his goodbyes the
Of the family all over again
training camp in SOUTH place Of blaz
ing sunshine and vigorous persphaton crowded with
fellows, with sprinkng of others got
class by having military experience The
and umbermen and business and professional
citiesBunny wanted to know what they like and
they thought about life the
his back ached and he studied school,
he lived tent and ate ravenousy and in all directions
Now and then he would explore the country with copan
on but keeping himself out of the adventures that occupied
most of the army free time Here place
that when you out of the camp look
and they told what do when you back
had characterization where lined with the
lows and made jokes about where had been what
cost Bunny knew enough realize that
neghborhood Of this who
pretty well debauched after he had little interest their
gances or the trim slkstocknged ankles they displayed
He had application artillery they assigned
him to study military transportation because of his knowledge
of oil He took this quite nnOcenty realizing
with his widespreading influence might
quietly determined that Bunny going
o he b " S Sad cSag ten Yea Bunny Was
gasoline and OIL seeing that the various products
standard efficiently and promptly shipped Who Could
he might among those the job
of working out contracts and might be able then
put in good word for Ross Consolidated.
deal was going through and Dad wrote long let
when he had studied them lying in tent
Also there rumos in the and then detailed
designed prepare the public launching huge
enterprise Late in the Bunny frlough
home to get the latest
Home" longer Beach City, Dad had only been
waiting till Bunny had got through with school, and had
of Angel City, which through agent
for fifteen thousand 1t all pink outside with
hedge plants trimmed to the shape of bells and balls like
brokers' signs had wide swings hanging by
brass chains and ferns planted in shells and
big plate glass windows that did not come Inside fur
nture of called mission heavy you could
hardly move it. but that all right because Dad dnwant
move It, he would sit in any chair wherever happened to be-
and the only place he expected comfort his
had huge old leather chair of his cigars
map OF the Paradise tract covering one whole wall One thing
more Dad had to- that Grandmas biggest paintings
Germans with their rest ladys stuff her
easel and paints and great stack Of her lesser works.
boxed and slowed in the basement Aunt Emma
mistress of the household with BERTHE head critic when
home.
the desk den was piled stack of papers foot
high relating to the enterprise
one and explained the details Consolidated going
De seventy million dollar corporation
millions bonds and preferred millions
common stock Mr. Roscoe the his Prospect
Hill properties and those Lobos River
were to get five millions for their financing of the PROJECT
balance be special stock twenty-five millions to
be offered to the public to finance the deveopmenone
the biggest renee the pipe
lines and whole chain of service stations throughout
California. This stock be non-vong" wonderful new
scheme which Dad explained Bunny the public put UP
its and share tot the profits but have nothing say
as to how the company We of boobs
buttng in affairs said nobody can raid us on
the market and take away control"
Continued