ABSTRACT
Pasco where you can get all the beans you can carry. Damaged, but fine to eat . . . I don’t care now, because I’ll work hard enough once I get to Oroville to make up where I left off. This spring they were begging men to come up there. They couldn’t get enough-nobody would work. Thinnin’ and prunin’ both, all work that’s got to be done on schedule. Yeah, I made goddamn good money there this spring-a hundred sixty-eight bucks, in a little over two weeks. That’d be good money-if you could keep it. The truth of it’s right here.” He pointed to his hand. “Third wristwatch I’ve had this year.”
