At the other's request he told his story; how he had come to America, and what had happened to him in the stockyards, and how his family had been broken up, and how he had become a wanderer.

So much the other man heard, and then he pressed Jurgis's arm tightly. "you have been through the mill, comrade!" he said. "We will make a fighter out of you!"

From "The Jungle"
by Upton Sinclair