![]() The line moves slowly and trusties keep pushing their way in front. And even then, they find tasks - inventories, fixing and cleaning things - for the prisoners to do in camp. In months with five Sundays, the authorities usually only give them three off from work. While in line, Shukhov hears that there wasn't going to be a Sunday that week. Even so, he doesn't have time to remember his home in Temgenovo that much. Still, whenever anyone in his barracks gets a parcel, he wishes one would come for him. Shukhov had received parcels from home while in Ust-Izhma but told his wife not to send him more and take food out of the kids' mouths. Prisoners receiving parcels have to give away bits of it to lots of people, including the guard who opens it. The guards who open the parcels chop open boxes and pour liquid out of glass containers, and prisoners have to bring bags to carry the contents back in. Shukhov rushes to the parcels office, where a line of fifteen men, holding bags and sacks, has formed along the porch. The Parcel House to Return to the Barracks pages 125-144: ![]()
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