Then suddenly, at the corner, he came upon a green-grocery, with a tray full of cabbages in front of it. Jurgis gave one swift glance about him, and stooped and seized the biggest of them, and darted around the corner with it. There was a hue and cry, and a score of men and boys started in chase of him; but he came to an alley, and then to an other branching off from it and leading him into another street, where he fell into a walk, and slipped his cabbage under his coat and went off unsuspected in the crowd. When he had gotten a safe distance away he sat down and devoured half the cabbage
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