and CHICAUU raph and by Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat. Plaver with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler, Stormas, husky, brawling. 5 City of the Big Shoulders browing: lightice scropping They tell me you are wicked and I believe them for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps loring the farm boys And they tell me you are crooked and I Yes, it is true I have soked. unfair, cort Tilinois in 1878. an, porter, son cruet and unjust n three Pulitzer aning: fiercely clever meanings of also use your ning of the text seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. And they tell me you are bratal and my reply is. On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them 10 Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning, Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Sareheaded. Shoveling - Wrecking Planning Building, breaking, rebuilding, Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth. laughing with white teeth, Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs. 20 Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribe the heart of the people, Laughing Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation © 2018 College Roard. All rights reserved destiny fote; a force ng what will happen In the future e Reading Workshop Arts Grade 7 megan his writing