good time didn't save anything in Vienna;
there were too many pleasant ways of spending
every night what he'd made in the day. After
three years there, he came to New York. He
was badly advised and went to work on furs
during a strike, when the factories were offer-
ing big wages. The strikers won, and Cuzak
was blacklisted. As he had a few hundred dol-
lars ahead, he decided to go to Florida and
raise oranges. He had always thought he would
like to raise oranges! The second year a hard
frost killed his young grove, and he fell ill
with malaria. He came to Nebraska to visit
his cousin, Anton Jelinek, and to look about.
When he began to look about, he saw Antonia,
and she was exactly the kind of girl he had
always been hunting for. They were married
at once, though he had to borrow money from
his cousin to buy the wedding-ring.

"It was a pretty hard job, breaking up
this place and making the first crops grow,"
he said, pushing back his hat and scratching
his grizzled hair. "Sometimes I git awful sore
on this place and want to quit, but my wife
she always say we better stick it out. The
babies come along pretty fast, so it look like
it be hard to move, anyhow. I guess she was

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