# The Big Idea

Author: Cummings, Ray, 1887-1957

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67259

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Big+Idea+Cummings&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Jimmy Rand came out of the wash-house that early April morning and took his place in the line of men dressed in their black, greasy mine-clothes. It was a long line—stretching past the power-house, past the big tower where the coal came tumbling down with a great clatter upon the sorting screens and into the waiting railroad flat cars beneath, until finally it wound itself to the little iron gate and gate-house near the mine-mouth where, through a tiny window, the men gave their numbers to be checked down in a great book.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-idea-67259/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-idea-67259/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-idea-67259/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-idea-67259/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-idea-67259/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-idea-67259/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-idea-67259/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-idea-67259/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-idea-67259/chapters/9/index.md)