"Ona had now been working in the ham-wrapping room for two years, and every day during that time she had been half expecting what now happened, when the forelady came and told her that her services were no longer needed. Ona stood still, quite white about the lips; she caught at her breath two or three times, and then managed to gasp out an inquiry as to what she had done."
Description:Chapter Thirteen, concluded, in Upton Sinclair's original serial for Appeal to Reason, the unexpurgated version of what became "The Jungle."
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