"A time of peril on the killing-floor was when a steer broke loose. In the killing of the cattle at Anderson's they had, of course, no thought save of speed. In the slaughter houses of Europe, where there are laws, they fit over the head of the animal a leather cap having a nail in it; then, provided the knocker had only skill enough to hit the nail with a big malet, he cannot fail to kill the animal."
Description:Chapter Eleven, concluded, in Upton Sinclair's original serial for Appeal to Reason, the unexpurgated version of what became "The Jungle."
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