1 "Selling papers with the boys," she said.
2 And worse yet, the boys were getting out of the habit of coming home at night.
3 Then suddenly the big butcher president leaped upon a pile of stones and yelled: "It's off, boys."
4 There were hardened criminals and innocent men too poor to give bail; old men, and boys literally not yet in their teens.
5 Elzbieta was sick a good deal now, and the boys were wild and unruly, and very much the worse for their life upon the streets.
6 Even the boys, who are romping about the room, draw near and listen, and some of the women sob and wipe their aprons in their eyes.
7 The two bridesmaids, whose insignia of office are paper wreaths, come next, and after them the rest of the guests, old and young, boys and girls.
8 Both of these last were bright boys, and there was no reason why their family should starve when tens of thousands of children no older were earning their own livings.
9 Next to Stanislovas, who was now fifteen, there was a girl, little Kotrina, who was two years younger, and then two boys, Vilimas, who was eleven, and Nikalojus, who was ten.
10 Toward the end, however, he learned that he was regarded with hatred by the rest of the "boys," because he compelled them either to make a poorer showing than he or to do without their share of the pie.
11 Passing down the avenue to work that morning he had seen two boys leaving an advertisement from house to house; and seeing that there were pictures upon it, Jurgis had asked for one, and had rolled it up and tucked it into his shirt.
12 The men had left a long line of hogs in various stages of preparation, and the foreman was directing the feeble efforts of a score or two of clerks and stenographers and office boys to finish up the job and get them into the chilling rooms.
13 There was a hue and cry, and a score of men and boys started in chase of him; but he came to an alley, and then to another branching off from it and leading him into another street, where he fell into a walk, and slipped his cabbage under his coat and went off unsuspected in the crowd.