2348 valley of the moon vintage festival

... from the bottom, an' ring in cold decks like the others We're the white folks that failed You see, times changed, and there was two kinds of us, the lions and the plugs The plugs only worked, the ... worked, the lions only gobbled They gobbled the farms, the mines, the factories, an' now they've gobbled the government We're the white folks an' the children of white folks, that was too busy ... THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 2 CHAPTER 7 Billy quarreled with good fortune He suspected he was too prosperous on the wages he received What with the accumulating savings account, the

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... already in the neighborhood, where lived the families of the shopmen who had gone out on strike. Among the small storekeepers, Saxon, in the course of the daily marketing, could sense the air of despondency. ... everywhere. The mothers of the children that played in the streets showed the gloom plainly in their faces. When they gossiped in the evenings, over front gates and on door stoops, their voices ... vile abuse that it had brought the blush of shame to Saxon's cheeks. On the stoop of the house on the other side, Saxon had noted Mercedes, in the height of the beating up, looking on with

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... "The last of the Mohegans, the last of the Mohegans." Then he groaned, and the eyelids drooped down again. He was not dead. She knew that, The chest still rose and fell, and the gurgling ... from ten to twelve, by themselves, the older girls anxiously clutching the small children by the hands or gathering them into their arms. Saxon could not see the cause of all this, but she could ... woman came out of her front door, dragging a chair, on which she coolly seated herself on the tiny stoop at the top of the steps. In the hands of the special police were clubs. The Pinkertons

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... jobs. They've bucked up real high an' mighty what of all that killin' the other day. Havin' the troops out is half the fight, along with havin' the preachers an' the ... an' as many more of the fifteen as they can. They say that flat. The Tribune, an' the Enquirer an' the Times keep sayin' it over an over every day. They're all union-hustin' ... what the others couldn't raise." "How much was it?" "Forty dollars I was goin' to stand off the butcher an' the rest for a while They knew I was good pay But they put it to me straight They'd

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... THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 2 CHAPTER 11 With Billy on strike and away doing picket duty, and with the departure of Mercedes and the death of Bert, Saxon was ... had seen them kill the strikers as mercilessly as the strikers had killed the scabs. And, unlike the strikers, the police were professional killers. They were not fighting for jobs. They did ... public and broke the strikes But the healthy beating up of a scab,... up of a scab, he contended the "throwing of the fear of God into a scab," as he expressed it was the only right

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... THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 2 CHAPTER 12 A gleam of light came, when Billy got a job driving a grading team for the contractors of the big bridge then building ... lot of them college fellows fraternity guys, they're called yaps that live off their fathers' money They come to the stable in big tourin' cars an' drove out the wagons with half the ... What's the good of supportin' a union that can't win a strike? What's the good of knockin' the blocks off of scabs when they keep a-comin' thick as ever? The whole

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... bearing the brunt of the fight, was in the thick of it, dizzy with the striking of blows and the blows he received. If fault there was, it lay elsewhere, somewhere in the tangled scheme of things ... for the count By the tenth round they was offerin' even that I wouldn't last the round At the eleventh they was offerin' I wouldn't last the fifteenth An' I lasted the whole twenty... ... thoroughly the humility of love, was a proud woman. Only the proud can be truly humble, as only the strong may know the fullness of gentleness. But what was the use, she demanded, of being proud

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... slugger " the fireman's voice began. Then came the unmistakable impact of a blow; the crash of glass; a scuffle on the back porch; and, finally, the heavy bumps of a body down the steps. ... in the Alviso marshes, and of how the engineer, imprisoned under the overturned engine and unhurt, being drowned by the rising tide, had begged to be shot. Billy came in at the end of the ... realized the fullness of his strength. In the front room she could only lie back in the Morris chair sobbing, and listen to what occurred in the kitchen. "I'll stay to the end of the week,"

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... Strothers came to see her. She sat in the front room and talked with him, noting with fascination that there were fringes to the heels of his trousers. Another day, the business agent of the ... out to him. She told of her first year of happiness with Billy, of the hard times caused by the labor troubles, of the change in Billy so that there was no love-life left, of her own deep horror. ... responsible for all the cruelty to labor, for the hardships of the women, for the punishment of the labor men who were wearing stripes in San Quentin or were in the death cells awaiting the scaffold.

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... with long draughts of thin red wine. She envied them their freedom that advertised itself in the heartiness of their meal, in the tones of their chatter and laughter, in the very boat itself ... far end of the wall where it jutted into the bay between the Oakland and Alameda Moles. But she could see no wall. It was the time of the full moon, and the unusual high tide covered the rocks. ... tumbled into the bottom of the boat The fish was free of the hook, and she baited afresh and dropped the line over The boy marked his place and closed the book "They'll be biting

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... top he poured the contents of the coffee canister. All this he carried into the back yard and dumped in the garbage can. The coffee pot he emptied into the sink. "How much of the money you ... He had stood the barber off, and he had walked all the way from the City Hall because of lack of the nickel carfare. But he'd like a bath most mighty well, and a change of clothes. She mustn't ... from. "The coffee," she answered. "And the butter." He emptied his plate of meat and her plate into the frying pan, likewise the roll of butter and the slice on the table,

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... THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 2 CHAPTER 18 It was early evening when they got off the car at Seventh and Pine on their way home from Bell's Theater. Billy ... home in the bureau and the chest of drawers. Three-quarters of an hour later, supper ready, all but the putting on of the lamb chops at the sound of his step, Saxon waited. She heard the gate ... Saxon did their little marketing together, then separated at the corner, Saxon to go on to the house and prepare supper, Billy to go and see the boys the teamsters who had fought on in the strike

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... farm them days. All they had to do was yoke their oxen an' go after it, an' the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles to the west, an' all them thousands of miles an' millions of ... Salinger's wagon was at the house, taking out the furniture, the morning they left. The landlord, standing at the gate, received the keys, shook hands with them, and wished them luck. "You're ... THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 2 CHAPTER 19 Between feeding and caring for Billy, doing the housework, making plans, and selling her store of pretty needlework, the days

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... dented from the capsize of the wagon in Rock Canyon A bullet-hole, plugged, in the face of the top drawer, told of the fight with the Indians at Little Meadow Of these happenings her mother had ... down the aisle She drummed and shrieked the length of it The door opened, and a vast, muffled roar of machinery burst in; and in the roar of it the drumming and the shrieking were drowned ere the ... Remained of the episode only the scorch of cloth drifting ominously through the air "It's sickenin'," said Mary And thereafter, for a long time, the many irons rose and fell, the pace of the room...

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... "Never heard of them," he confessed "Did they live anywhere around here?" She laughed "No, They lived in England They were the first English, and you know the Americans came from the English We're ... way When they was Indian-fightin' up there with the Modoc Indians, a lot of the miners an' settlers took a hand Roberts was captain of one outfit, and once, after a fight, they took a lot of prisoners ... with the judgment of his gaze "Wait a minute." He reached over to her and felt her arm at the biceps The pressure of the encircling fingers was firm and honest, and Saxon thrilled to it There...

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... out of the melee At last the break came The losing team, accompanied by its host of volunteers, was dragged in a rush over the ground and disappeared under the avalanche of battling forms of the ... from the judges' stand beside the track the announcer was bellowing the start of the boys' foot-race; and Bert, disappointed, joined Billy and the two girls on the hillside looking down upon the ... front of the judges' stand The stand was a rickety, two-story affair, the second story open at the front, and here the judges could be seen debating as heatedly as the crowd beneath them "There...

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... hands, Then dip in their basin from bosom and wrists." "It's beautiful, just beautiful," she sighed And then, appalled at the length of all the poem, at the volume of the mystery, she rolled the ... man of her choice; who had flown in the face of the family and of community morality and demanded the divorce of Laura from her criminally weak husband; and who on the other hand, had held the ... Daisy, the chit of a child, hide Punch in the wagon She saw the savage old worried father discover the added burden of the several pounds to the dying oxen She saw his wrath, as he held Punch by the...

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... herself that he hurt none of the other fellows' feelings in the way the girls hurt hers They all but asked him outright to dance with them, and little of their open pursuit of him escaped her eyes ... face with the apprehension and fear his appearance caused She was afraid of the rough bulk of the man; of the heavy brown eyes, dominant and confident; of the big blacksmith-hands and the thick ... overhear two of the strapping young cannery girls "The way that little sawed-off is monopolizin' him," said one And the other: "You'd think she might have the good taste to run after somebody of her...

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... the hills?" She did not answer immediately, and for the moment she was seeing the nightmare vision of her last buggy-ride; of her fear and her leap from the buggy; and of the long miles and the ... My brother George has the sword now, but Tom he's the brother I live with says it is mine because it wasn't his father's You see, they're only my half-brothers I was the only child by my mother's ... proud to know you are the master of other men," she said softly, aware herself of pride in the strength and skill of him "It does," he admitted frankly "I'm glad I went into the game just as glad...

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... deliberation, as if the destiny of empires rested on the certitude of her act, she turned the saucer of coffee upside down on the table She lifted her right hand, slowly, hugely, and in the same slow, ... on the chair, all in the moment of quick clear-seeing, she drew the skirt tightly back and raised it The sight was good to her, nor did she under-appraise the lines of the slender ankle above the ... the will and the spirit of him It was no time for lingering With the quick glance and fore-knowledge of a woman, Saxon saw, not merely the curious children clustering about, but the peering of...

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