Out of the Dump

Excerpt from Out of the Dump Perhaps, if his friends had been able to reach father's bedside, mother might have gotten a few thousand dollars damages from the packing company, and we children could have been sent to school, which would have equipped us to bring better returns when we were put on the labor market later on. But if is a big word. Nobody saw father during his last moments but the callous packing house lawyer who brought away a paper which he claimed father signed, releasing the company from liability.