"And now he died. Perhaps it was the smoked sausage he had eaten that morning which may have been made out of some of the tuberculous pork that is taken out at the bottom of the tank. At any rate, an hour after eating it the child had begun to cry with pain and in another hour he was rolling about on the floor in convulsions."
Description:Chapter Thirteen in Upton Sinclair's original serial for Appeal to Reason, the unexpurgated version of what became "The Jungle."
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