The Road

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Джек Лондон. The Road

Confession

Holding Her Down

Pictures

"Pinched"

The Pen

Hoboes That Pass in the Night

Road-Kids and Gay-Cats

Two Thousand Stiffs

Bulls

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There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to explain. Unfortunately, I do not know her name, much less her present address. If her eyes should chance upon these lines, I hope she will write to me.

It was in Reno, Nevada, in the summer of 1892. Also, it was fair-time, and the town was filled with petty crooks and tin-horns, to say nothing of a vast and hungry horde of hoboes. It was the hungry hoboes that made the town a "hungry" town. They "battered" the back doors of the homes of the citizens until the back doors became unresponsive.

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"All right. It rained a whole lot when we were there."

"Did you get shore-leave?"

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