Jurgis talked lightly about work, because he was young. "That is well enough for men like you," he would say, "silpnas, puny fellows-b.
He could not even imagine how it would feel to be beaten.
There was too much health in him.
He had only been there four months, and he was young, and a giant besides.
They told him stories about the breaking down of men, there in the stockyards of Chicago, and of what had happened to them afterward-stories to make your flesh creep, but Jurgis would only laugh.
Jurgis talked lightly about work, because he was young