The Empty Pail
“You see that pail?” he says,both asking a question andmaking a statement in the same breath.“Every day he brings it with him,and every day it’s empty.”Every day,working himself to exhaustion,he carries the empty pail – full of promises,of hopes,of dreams,of the future.Every day,when the noon whistle blows,the other men take out their pails,and pull out sandwich... »