The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-28
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shouted still louder:
LET us throughw e.
"Who's that?" n .s,s
eve want to go to our nother" 800 .gsls .x,c
pushed way through peasant
had laid of ackng the floor The cried:
where you think you're going? Did ask hand
ing round here2" 49, --,-Et@
One must be crafty crafty Without nothing
comphed had Mshka spoken politely spoke
"Auntie are you from Buzuluk?" = ,~
"Get off that sackng!" ~~--~.~@ ..oy- .oo
eve won't touch anything"
A peasant lying near said without raising his head:
him by hair, then he'll understand YOU"
and father died in the famine"
Again the peasant spoke without raising his head:
m orphan too-traveling without my father"
Mishka himself near the sackng and began to dose off,
AS really getting to sleep serioshka cried out deir
"The Kirghs"
womans baby began to howl. She said angriy:
Don't make noise! You frightened my baby"
again serioshka cried out: g
burns!"
He awoe to consciousness and wanted to go outside again. The,
he began whmper quietly his head fallen his knees Despair
ingy Mishka closed his eyes again.
Tahken city, fifteen pounds Of
of bread kept whrng through his head He m
agned he riding the buffers laundering the roofs hiding
away in engines and no soldier
They climbed the roof the train he already down. They
climbed the engine already off And everywhere they
talking about him. -sa.,< ...
"Theres bandit up there!"
"Who is it,"
"A Buzuuk boy from the Lopaino district travelling
ticket and without Every ones tried but
catch him to bring him before the Tcheka."
By and whimperedn his fever like sick
puppy ~ ~.. .---,
Mishka glanced rproachu angry eyes thought
"Why get with him? Certainly would
There's the
If leave him he'll die If take him. it will be long time before
self But then I had collected six pieces of bread could have
all Six myself"
upon him, wheel He forced
his through the waiting mad went out the station plat
Beneath the railroad bandlehksd vanka from whom
sitting spot the Wheels half asleep half lost
in meditation
recognized peaceaby
"What for?' > '~'i~..s .'se @e..
ITO yourself a little"
by gegan telling
how had abandon each other
serka would be in bad fix if he left onehe couldn't
then by Why, just pieces bread
he had wanted ecould have had them all for himself
vanka glowered at him from under his eyebrows
"You think you're strong don't your" F
"Why think so? Just give IN
fight two at time
wonderful Give enough to eat and I'll do the same"
Pyetka looked At Mhka demanded with blazing
"Maybe' you could beat Yashka too?"
Chow old is he?"
Thirteen" ---.-.~-.
"Huh what's that? beat big fellows"
Pyetka began He wasn't afraid of two at tina
Ell? Suddenly by aecden thrust his elbow and caught
Mishka righton the jaw.
Mishka settled his on his back.
"And you?S ",e ~~r3ae
Listen I'll give punch and you'll be flat the ground!.
vanka showed him with his leg.
The next all three angle of and legs beneath
the ran for long time they clawed and pumned another in
of hatred With those long nails of his vanka scratched
Mchka whole nose But he didn't bet the better Mshka Mshka
rmed Vankas head against the ground hard that squaked like
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-sa, 81 s ITO be continued) e,,e-
shortcomings make forward strides both politically