Out of the Dump CHAPTER I dads finish One morning, ten years ago, when I was a little snip of a girl, Dad kissed us all goodbye, from mother down to the baby, and went oflf to work as usual. He never came back. It was this way. The third floor chute from the Can to the Canning Rooms down at the yards had begun to give way and father was the first man sent over with a load, after one of the braces had been knocked out. He told the foreman how shaky the beams were, but thats as far as it went. Two of the men working near him told mother about it afterwards.
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