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Walter A. Wyckoff. The Workers: An Experiment in Reality. The East
The Workers: An Experiment in Reality. The East
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I THE ADJUSTMENT
CHAPTER II A DAY-LABORER AT WEST POINT
CHAPTER III A HOTEL PORTER
CHAPTER IV A HIRED MAN AT AN ASYLUM
CHAPTER V A FARM HAND
Footnote
CHAPTER VI IN A LOGGING CAMP
CHAPTER VII IN A LOGGING CAMP (Concluded)
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Walter A. Wyckoff
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Knowing that I was within walking distance of Garrisons-on-Hudson, I resolved to reach that point before night. My letters had been forwarded there, and my eagerness to get them was of a kind unexperienced before. It was Saturday, and, late in the afternoon, I reached Garrisons after a hard day's march. The heat was intense, and although I walked but a little more than twenty miles, the effort of carrying my pack was thoroughly exhausting. The woman in charge at the post-office was in evident doubt about the safety of giving me so large a packet of letters, but yielded at sight of others which I showed her, and readily agreed to look after my pack until I should call for it.
Between the station and the river was a tavern, and there I meant to apply for work. As I neared the station platform, a train from New York drew in. Something familiar in one of the passengers who alighted put me on my guard. In a moment I recognized a fellow-guest at a dinner-party of a few evenings before, and I remembered, with an odd sense of another existence, that, over our coffee, on a broad veranda, overlooking a harbor, bright with the night-lights of a squadron of yachts, he had given me the benefit of an amazing familiarity with the details of the recent baccarat scandal. My anxiety was needless, for I easily passed unnoticed in the crowd.
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