1 He tried to persuade his father to have nothing to do with the offer.
2 He saw his trembling old father, who had blessed them all with his wonderful love.
3 Antanas was but little over a year old, and already no one but his father could manage him.
4 At the end there were three days that they were alone, before it was found out that the father was dead.
5 Then in the morning there was no time to look at him, so really the only chance the father had was on Sundays.
6 Grandfather Anthony, Jurgis' father, is not more than sixty years of age, but you would think that he was eighty.
7 Then his father had met with misfortune in business and killed himself; and there had been his mother and a younger brother and sister.
8 They would have been married in the beginning, only Mikolas has a father who is drunk all day, and he is the only other man in a large family.
9 Old Antanas had been a worker ever since he was a child; he had run away from home when he was twelve, because his father beat him for trying to learn to read.
10 His father, and his father's father before him, and as many ancestors back as legend could go, had lived in that part of Lithuania known as Brelovicz, the Imperial Forest.
11 To be sure there had been a great many of them, which was a common failing in Packingtown; but they had worked hard, and the father had been a steady man, and they had a good deal more than half paid for the house.
12 It was sufficiently perplexing that this tiny mite of life should have come into the world at all in the manner that it had; that it should have come with a comical imitation of its father's nose was simply uncanny.
13 It was the same with Jurgis, who consigned the unfit to destruction, while going about all day sick at heart because of his poor old father, who was wandering somewhere in the yards begging for a chance to earn his bread.
14 A man could live and save on that; but then there were only half a dozen splitters in each place, and one of them that Jurgis knew had a family of twenty-two children, all hoping to grow up to be splitters like their father.
15 He treasured them up, and would drag them out and make his father tell him about them; there were all sorts of animals among them, and Antanas could tell the names of all of them, lying upon the floor for hours and pointing them out with his chubby little fingers.
16 He looked more like his father every hour, Elzbieta would say, and said it many times a day, because she saw that it pleased Jurgis; the poor little terror-stricken woman was planning all day and all night to soothe the prisoned giant who was intrusted to her care.
17 Now Antanas Rudkus was the meekest man that God ever put on earth; and so Jurgis found it a striking confirmation of what the men all said, that his father had been at work only two days before he came home as bitter as any of them, and cursing Durham's with all the power of his soul.
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