“ The very poor can always be depended upon. They never turn away the hungry. ”
Jack London, The Road (1907). copy citation
| Author | Jack London |
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| Source | The Road |
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| Date | 1907 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Road |
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“They even held one sturdy little boy aloft so that he could see over the shoulders of his elders the tramp who wasn't going to get anything to eat at their house.
It began to look as if I should be compelled to go to the very poor for my food. The very poor constitute the last sure recourse of the hungry tramp. The very poor can always be depended upon. They never turn away the hungry. Time and again, all over the United States, have I been refused food by the big house on the hill; and always have I received food from the little shack down by the creek or marsh, with its broken windows stuffed with rags and its tired-faced mother broken with labor.”
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