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Book Excerpt: lame. It was a small room, not disorderly, because of lack offurnishings to disorder it. The plaster, discolored by the steamof many wash-days, was crisscrossed with cracks from the bigearthquake of the previous spring. The floor was ridged, wide-cracked, and uneven, and in front of the stove it was wornthrough and repaired with a five-gallon oil-can hammered flat anddouble. A sink, a dirty roller-towel, several chairs, and awooden table completed the picture.An apple-core crunched under her foot as she drew a chair to thetable. On the frayed oilcloth, a supper waited. She attempted thecold beans, thick with grease, but gave them up, and buttered a ..