Excerpt from Son of Power But Skag went back to the Zoo. For three days more he went, remained from opening to closing time. He seemed to fall into deep absorptions before tigers and monkeys especially. He didn't hear what went on around him. He did not appear to miss his lunch. You had to touch his shoulder to get his attention. The truant Officer did this. It all led dismally to the Reform School from which Skag ran away. He was gone three weeks and wouldn't have come back then, except his heart hurt about his mother. ...
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Excerpt from Son of Power But Skag went back to the Zoo. For three days more he went, remained from opening to closing time. He seemed to fall into deep absorptions before tigers and monkeys especially. He didn't hear what went on around him. He did not appear to miss his lunch. You had to touch his shoulder to get his attention. The truant Officer did this. It all led dismally to the Reform School from which Skag ran away. He was gone three weeks and wouldn't have come back then, except his heart hurt about his mother. He felt the truth - that she was slowly dying with out him. After that for awhile he kept away from the animals, because his mother loved and clung and cried, when he grew Silently cold with revolt against a life not at all for him, or hot with hatred against the Reform School. Those were ragged months in which a less rubbery spirit might have been maimed, but the mother died before that actually happened. Skag was free - free the same night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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