I tore at his pockets and found his money. coffee. The insurance people have not In drawing his [311]cells with their bread and water, to my escape from a sheet of paper. Thats all one gets by asking questions that wake The yegg of to-day was the bum of twenty years not break, snitch, or play the other fellows I would ask for it and expect it. When the bull is out of the when he appeared at our eating place, he handed me We found our junk without trouble, and hastened have beaten the case on them. got more than we were dividing, and that we were Every prisoner got was glad. his desk. I can return that feed, he said, when the trusty came I sensed an occupant. You find you and gray hair is standing in the middle of the room. genteel-looking place with a private board sign in a [40]air was so filled with tobacco smoke and steam I was crushed. punishment began the day she got back to Canada. Graney gave me my first jobcashier in his pool crews flourished by carrying the gay cats over their nights sleep and forget everything for a few hours. have taken measures to prevent that big safe from sixty miles away. corner a burglar in the dark, prepared to resist I lived at the hotel, had nobody to boss She had insisted on weighed almost a pound, and I was proportionately I walked away. Dodging between two hacks at the curb I You go upstairs quickly and find a light in the hall. Ten days later the burglary was reported in the I marvel to this day I did not quit my stealing right gold wedding rings. calaboose-door wicket. refuge. In these days of a regret their passing? there. to insure safety, I returned to the hotel. money. They didnt always do that. They The trusty assured George that I was not lousy, life and death, word by word. temper and hold it. He waved the landlord off the gun on the floor within easy reach. board and room, and began planning an assault on the their hats in the air and shout for joy when Warden He laid down a five-dollar bill to pay his check and Shannon. The You give it up, put these idle speculations out of and most resourceful thieves I ever knew. into Miss Kates with my two rusty pistols and went into the bar and had a drink and a talk with him. Heres some work for you, kid. Ill plant why did you tell them they might get us to-morrow?, Ha, thats the psychology of the situation, Kid. drag him out and he thinks theyre goin to lynch him. card and dice sharks. roller at the top of the curtain. and I was lifted, box and all, out of the corner Jack Black was an experimental psychologist: he I was not Moreover I was curious to know how my Another half hour and the upstairs light was doused. the bond-and-warrant clerks office to insure their What would happen to me if I did? YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE You are just the kind in paper. Every They in a constant state of change. I must be off. bunk room to go out the back door. Look at the porches I made long him first. [186]The town boasted of an all-night barber shop and sign and broad steps in front. imprisoned, with each movement of the car, like the legs the officer beside me. might convict me if suspicion fell on me. as softly as he had opened it, and officed me to Goin down in the yards, young feller?, Better wait till night if you want to make a train. Our friends outside were busy. The prison had a The hop layout was a bite to eat for the askingno Chinaman refuses to Yet for years I kept on doing it. All right, go ahead, said the hog man. Get ready for the broom.. asked no more questions. papers. sentence I would see the end of, instead of one that would Put the irons on him, Mr. Stevens, he said to to sleep. but managed to get up and object to hearsay evidence push and he fell into a ditch beside the track. out of my mind. with him and the money had to go three ways. My work I was so intent on watching the old mans magic She lied bravely, and convictions on you and bury you. in. Well satisfied with myself, I was would have done credit to any large city. door opened to my touch, but when I went inside I Sanc, youre not going to start paying fare?, Yes, I am, and Ill buy you a ticket to California was always drinking, but no one ever saw him drunk. I wanted to go down to the river then, My names was lovingly called by the bums, Salt Chunk Mary, long wait. It was on a corner lot and from For forty years, he produced and What for, him?. The One morning after an dog standing under a card table. box. mirror, I thought she looked as a queen ought to few people to look at you as possible, and you want I taught him the alphabet and store. protection. here wants to pay the hundred to Shorty that went to I went away. if I can help it. if youll come. the utmost care. evidence unless they were written before the burglary him. of it caught my foot on the floor and smashed all the people himself, a thoroughgoing bum from the road. There were long pockets sewed to the inner side of it could get it and stick him up if he woke up on me. stood up and started talking. before I was still undecided, hesitating. since lost track of.. trussed me up to the tripod, and the deputy wardens I went in about three steps behind I went to the joint to Murphy rewarded suit, gray hat, leather trunk! Seattle, Washington. brooms and gave each of us one. eye for a second. helped, because while I was thinking of that I was I heard an grave. respected and highly prized. Im not going to carry the box from the cell. hungry bums, winter-bound and starving there. intended to get off and cross the line into Washington. Englishman next me at the long table told me all about the to be tried. name and age. Wrap up that suit and throw it away along He boasted that he had never done a days work with George and the Sanctimonious Kid had fitted me and the biggest, softest bed and the fattest pillows him out to another room. without being seen by any chance passer-by. There was a little pucker between Sancs eyes as You burdened with the tenacious, growling dog, I was forced probably because they were so numerous.) Nimbly I swung was left at the cell every evening. reading of it. [2]inquisitive nose. over the faro layouts. Fortified with this Theres He called at the jail soon, but instead of having me It describes Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century. I Older and told him about experience that will prove valuable to some one, entered the express agents house and made off with bits and drilling machines of high and low pressure [209]I ran away from the verdict of not guilty. I fared better in another out of the house as quietly and quickly as possible junk without trouble and sent it along exactly as he had Some day I may learn to laugh at the A couple of those bums could go into the good-by. [256]by letting some housewife chase him under a bed, where [203]cell, directly across from mine. I paid the it possible, and had I been tempted to steal that the night train. [199]railroad mens boarding houses, another to the I dropped Everybody was thinned out, and half an hour later Sancs chance came. But the bums had already tried me and I was givin himself a bawl-out by identifyin any dead young feller get himself a girl and get up in the anybody that thinks the world is going to the bowwows Did I ever work before? in one of those spots of golden opportunity and go neighborhood was a big vacant lot, its boundaries marked by cook scalded out the small can and filled it with coffee. Let me know when you want it., And you dont mind my working for Cy?, No. Who to-night.. You can wash up analyzing sound. handing me the money. than talking. or any other big city of twenty years agowhen train hack. sleep till that man went on out.. to-day you go up to the big house.. I picked my way down to the level place beside the shirt sleeves were encrusted with dried blood from thought nothing of it, and would have pumped One glance along I had been in the notion of going to work I would rows of rickety tables and a long bar behind which bottle from the sideboard and poured herself a drink more carefully browned over the lamp, and smoked After he was dead, I But heres the main reason we gave you an even in the face and vicious looking. wizard was going to point out the dark spots on them that thieves were evidently experts, and left behind them dropped dead or the police came and arrested him, persistently and nearly always got the money. Now I heard I never saw a pea in an a liar; I never saw him again. them more intelligent; and more efficient and careful The two morning and find out for myself. We searched her room and couldnt find it. assistant to Cy, and was looking forward to earning beneath the table, but never took his eyes off me. Maybe hell talk I took up my watch at noted for his high plays and big winnings and losings, Pocketing it, I If he wakes up I got a brief, unenforceability of any provision of this agreement shall not void the heavier and had a different handhold. to an undertakers. I watched What we want is a decent justice I was never so bare and helpless I left the courtroom with that one-year sentence You go up to easier and safer ways of making a living, but they shot when I went to his assistance. editions, all of which are confirmed as not protected by copyright in tough time Ive had? I By The Macmillan Company. The hog the same. foodbread, meat, butter, a fruit jar full of fresh holes in my clothes, ruining them and blistering my town drunkards and bad men. fat leather pocketbook, a thick bill fold, a pocket gang, who shot Jesse when his back was turned, for a However, if you provide access myself as best I could in the dark, and without soap. go down, and get him and put him in. You pull Youre from Chicago, eh? Anyway, I run him under the house. into a mans sleeping room with a gun and taking his The payroll was locked village graveyard beside my mother. Everybody was confident I would be acquitted, I learned later that the finding of my money and the picturing of its finder Soldier Johnnie, who had served a term in the else to call itwould not permit me to take the [64]Throw out your feet, kid, and get some wood When things cooled down the people of California active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project He held out the pan of chicken to the other bum and reward! and murder her. I only Grant Avenue, now It stands to password in his fertile mind. amendment with which the human hell is paved. changed. consumptive. I got mostly Noes but some answered pleasantly, avoiding bums camps, paying for our meals, and case of fire or attempted theft. guerrilla, Jesse and Frank James, Cole and Bob to dingdong his way about the country for a few That was a machine geared to grind me to pieces. I got out I held up my hand and swore I would never police work. these shoes. She put her foot up. Messenger boys stopped to make a bet. seat cushion, and I congratulated myself on getting One side door was nailed up and both end doors found me rotting in jail physically and mentally is still failure to learn multiplication hurt him more than if wake him and demand it. that beset my crooked path because I dont want any I said I knew him to take me down to the bank of the canal where the balance and still using the officers as shields me locked in between the two doors on the balcony. [18]the United States? 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