Jurgis does not take the news of Antanas' death the same as he did Ona's. (Antanas fell off the sidewalk in front of the boardinghouse and drowned in the water there.) Jurgis takes one look at his dead son and then breaks out into the street, resolving to himself that this is no world for a child to grow up in anyway.
Jurgis walks, walks, and finds himself out in the country, where he roams around as a hobo for a while. He even gets offered work, but declines. Finally, Jurgis joins a band of men who go to work during the harvest. He gains a good deal of money this way, but one day, as he is eating a supper in.....
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