The next day, I landed a job cleaning bricks, then moved into a boardinghouse and slowly started making my way back.

第二天我找了一份清扫砖块的工作，搬进了一个供膳宿的住处，慢慢开始了我的回头路。

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He did not take the loss like a man but went back to the room at the boardinghouse and sulled up like a possum.

NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

Papa and Tom Chaney arrived in Fort Smith and took a room at the Monarch boardinghouse.

NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

Mr. Knudsen was greatly amused to learn about a boardinghouse close to the factory on Manchester Avenue where 11 young Ford workmen lived.

WSJ: Henry Ford's Experiment to Build a Better Worker