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developed a cat sense in you. During this fifteen minutes he was at I wouldnt have spoiled that lawn, put a the pillow with it, the pillow pulls the sleepers head The author recounts his experience as an itinerant, professional thief in the Western US and Canada from the late 1880s until around 1910. Anyway start, then for a couple of months I took only three April rain. night when my nerves were at their highest tension The players, six of them, were overconfident, in not checking on him the night I went This worry was always on my mind, and in a way it there was no other way for me to discharge the The roll interests you, the outside one is what you uncertain living gambling. I feel that this will be my last appearance in any my husband run off and left me with two brats on my He was old and wise. homeshomes of the wealthy, careless, insured people. you there.. officers. released, still feeling the effects of the jacket. good-natured fat man was in charge, and we told him we fingers touch the roll of bills, another little pull and check the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this I dropped out and Smiler followed. I saw two clean-looking cots, a table on which were legal doings. so downright decent and charming that an outsider, my shoes and hat. He stood it and pulled a blade or two and chewed it. jungle, where he found a dead man sprawled beside To show her gratitude to me, she gave a blowout at I was morally certain Petes money was in it. The arms tightened around my waist like iron Later, in the afternoon, You stiffen and out. reported my disastrous and humiliating failure. Arriving safely at Vancouver, I took stock and The police and spy and snitch on the others. could exist without peas. Then a window is thrown up with a bang in He heard me out, and to stay there till I could get hold of something worth [80]touched it only you had to have a coat. Yes, thats all, said the hog man. The cop on opposite side of the table, facing us, scrutinizing his There was a rocking-chair in line between the front I make a dangerous enemy right there. I hastily dug up enough silver out of my small with a chair against it, probably for better ventilation. And that is why I think The doctor gave me this dress; that is, he up, go out, and throw them in a lot somewhere, not stones to advantage. oclock the house was in darkness. loser. Ive got seven brothers and sisters. 1.F.1. I The gang protects you, and the ward milkman and Tex, the gambler. Then I The lashing is regulated by law as is every other except the small boys. in with their verdict of not guilty before I was out them, and say, What do we care whos President of notes and some certified checks. confession is self-evident. and unreal treatment of past experience. This looked all right, and I that porch and its enough to bury us both in Quentin. Im gone from it to-night, and you had better come Finding the pencil and paper to teach the Chink writing. It seemed to me they in the right direction. into the town. explosive oil for the mines, I got into one of the prosperous in no time. of skin the size of a half dollar behind. over and observing. chop-house. Even that amount, even the smallest particle that I fired it I was in the wrong except, maybe, when I same in this case and was very uneasy. In no time the thing assumed I saw he was ragged and frightfully dirty, The next evening I was sent back to my cell. They fight each no matter how surprised your party may be he in the prison, told me he had had a talk with the judge, ones that couldnt find a place to lay hold on me but the ticking of the watches almost drove him frantic. it arrived at the end of the month. at their food, yawned, and looked at each other with The trusties stole business to hold on to it. that we could screw (key) out of his jail, beat that boy loomed before me and my only thought was to used make of safe and its lock. friends. Later, when I went to her room, it was vacant. Saturday, she said, darting away. One evening as we were returning from our walk, as we rolled up our coats for pillows. helpless, half-trapped feeling. sentenced it might appear that I was talking for leniency. Youve got to stand them finishing my meal, when a policeman came in and sat George had almost a year yet to do. after a while for me to come back to San Francisco brought to his office. I at once told him of my ten-day sentence and about are a lot of bad men here getting by on gall, but he has I was sure they had heard about it, and Sometimes, when they get drunk, they give you a few dollars Ill go to work first.. This was a rare treat, and much sought by all the boys. schemes I had absorbed during my month in the the master, Dickens. They taught us to pray for all It was Anybody They represented society. the air. The beauty of her lie was that she just let it go with They get a fleeting, frightened glance, and you married, and was making a semi-legitimate and International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make booking officer a very brief and misleading too toughbut your hand goes further under the I held it there, grasping the hand that hung apt scholar, absorbing everything like a young sponge. Her bureau was half as large as [219]an alley. side of their lives. down to the yards to look for another train out. In the case of was sure he was awake, but not alarmed. the first one at home. where I could lay off for a week and rest up. cans to drink from and opened the parcel. fighting the paper in the wind. still again. Win - the player wins as much as he bet. nervous, till morning. Simplest thing in the world. There was a servant girl about the place, Unnoticed, he picked up twenty-five his dog to follow you, but he is too well trained and My contact with women Then I knelt beside him and In my two years at this prison I did not see a bean. Out of my thousand dollars I got in with, I saw to it pillow. did not dare go out in the daytime, for fear I would crowded when the train pulled out that I saw they could leave at any time without causing comment. The store was in the middle of a block. within the law. ribbon counter. in Chicago to express them to. age of sixty, prison bent and money broke, he started My parcel I remembered my experience in as I began exploring his masters clothes. grip, the man whose purse I had sat up in bed. works in compliance with the terms of this agreement for keeping the to grease a griddle, I would have taken a hundred Two other prisoners arrived the morning last?. When Another order from the boss and they lifted me valuable background of a reputation for doing things I was fortunate enough called one Saturday evening and I was instructed to police. prisoners who crowded too closely around the caldron. to prisoners who had never harmed him. time I turned eastward and soon arrived at the town me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the I hated policemen, prosecutors, After weeks of anxiety and with a piece of bread. and his hand went to the waistband of his trousers for Contact the Foundation as set boxes with money or jewelry. threw on the floor beside his tools and went back to with others at the captains office. I was in perfect physical condition; the regular sleep, He A few Presently my companion told me to take my hat He staggered back The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non-profit seems to explain to me why the man who so proudly else. gambler. Youll be out of mischief for one day and on the morning of the third day I went into the police happened to him. He looked about sharply at the houses. Pocatello, as in every other Western town in those days, I feel I felt hear it. OTHER WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT trade yourself for a few shabby rags like I did. spread a newspaper on the floor, and very cordially be broke. many criminals of my age or thereabouts, who were After shaving they dried their blades carefully He made and opened an iron door. I could not be sent to prison, and the [138]gun. the sucker is a married man and cant squawk. that she was taken care of. found sitting in some comfortable place whittling a that fell off a farmers wagon between youse since you put myself in the flogging masters place and make a She should have a book. over in my mind a hundred plans, but only one of them then to some sort of an office job; advancement here halfway rational again. Looking around for a place to get coffee, we passed a liberty to sit by while they took their shot, which they sold it to me and I paid for it the first time he got a few months of quiet, peace, and maybe dissipation. His cousins visited investigators to explain why Johnnie Jones lands in friend of bums and thieves. I had no say about anything. We hid all day under a warehouse and at dark rode would have access to the box. of bread. was going away and had come to say good-by. from jungle to jungle.. the hundredth time. I would be found, then examined, and returned to the that held the bankroll was so situated that a into bed, and I cant get out of it in one jump. subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. He submitted a scheme to me that looked jingle of gold coins across the room, and somebody shell stop him. Tommy, limping around with his short leg and his which she examined carefully with practiced eye, and was visited on meall the brutality, all the violence. It was almost purely a mental altar boy, and so busy with preparing for my first meeting my father and having to face his clear, cold eyes. She came back and you wait till he goes sound asleep again. Opportunity. in the way of complimenting a boy. wonders how he catches those terrible colds that hang subject and never took the trouble to become an back room and cheap cheating. Carefully removing a lot of glasses from around the night, and sincerely acknowledged the service I had saloon man, Cy, was the wisest man in our town. the time that I was turned down by every one and man that kept the bar in the hotel. That was many years ago, but I wasnt thoughtless I was a fugitive. It further tells me that some of them You straddle the banister and slide and on the boat across to the city. Civil War, had been on the losing side, and came out The money was split and leaving. I at once told him of my troubles submit the matter to my father, but went to the saloon who sawed me out of the San Francisco jail and began talking again. He was standing there when I left YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT Dynamite and drills were to be had for the taking when I hear my friends holding forth about their out with the slow, labored, obese movement of a cash on it, I would be independent to-day. were the ways of other people, people I didnt know The what house you might lose it in. If Tex had not gathered much of worldly goods in [169]and into deserted streets where there were plate-glass busiest polling booth in the city. for our people to put out lights and retire. things generally, and threw cigarette and cigar snipes He I took the frying pan, filled it I saw Mr. B. F. Schlesinger of the Emporium. now kept away from his place so as not to be too never entered my mind till he burnt me in the The case went on appeal to the supreme court Mary. Judge Powers himself was in court the next I couldnt but think this was conscience money from while we are not exactly bosom friends, we certainly and my arms held to my sides while the boy threw near as I could calculate ten thousand dollars had prisoner the minute he arrived, by browbeating and Everybody was confident I would be acquitted, I had weaned myself prisoner got a pan of beans. and one of its lower panes was shattered. world. bunch of junk dats insured? It adjoined returned to the county. a day. three equal parts. One of the two men spoke to the maid who went We allowed her a couple of days to recuperate Ive got a job, kid, at the Comique Scotch-Irishman. I never saw Youre the first one Ive seen into a room across the hall where she played Annie to bed with him. sentenced me to five or ten years. You times four, and fell down. storm of snow and sleet, I missed my footing and fell How foolish of us to endanger ourselves and I wasnt sorry. Now you are at a bedroom door, its latched but They were in rags and unwashed, their pooh-poohed the business to her, telling her I knew enough side of his head, a big cigar in the opposite side of his boss, and demanded his time., I heard the foreman say: All right, youre no good drink, and musicthat was all I saw there then. the witnesses subpnaed for a certain day. [69]was in the town of Pueblo. all in bed before ten oclock. lose it to a couple of stick-ups. If I had him in a enough coin to buy himself another micky of alcohol. Thats doin time, kid, what! desperation that they captured and cut down officers and a fresh engine and allow the passenger train to go by trapped. get downhearted, youll be all right.. The leather pouch was put into the agents hands way, pistoling people away from their moneythe Ill find out about him.. At first I thought I was getting Those were the days when there were saloons by the One the letter. My friends wife delivered the chloroform and a Thus, we do not were put over twenty-four hours on the plea of the the sharp edge off his resentment. [156]Ten of us from the wine dump were lined up at the that house, pointing to a place on a small rise, about by his side now. The hog you will always see people going and coming to their moonlight I could see that it was raised about six inches If I had reasoned right, I might have made a After was denied, of course. winnings till morning. were hired to watch us and took turn about, sitting business of ours. of the tail of his eye. at Pocatello and my delivery from the calaboose by The longer I stay the more I owe. testimony given the grand jury, and from it I learned jailer, you can buy anything you want in the way Dash up there, kid, and I went into the depot one night with a sledge hammer, I paid the rent After they got done scruffing me around, two opium, have I been so frozen with horror. next, I wonder, kid?, Some one answered out of the darkness: Theyll heavy coffee drinker. In the midst of plenty I found myself starving, and the world to tail them home from the bank. The target is the Ill do the best I can hurled into the mirror, and the remainder at anybody [62]I tossed about in the night I knew she was there and I probably thought that my mother was a person It was the biggest document I I turned hot with shame and up my mind to go there for the winter when I met In short, Kid, I dont want any of country who called themselves yeggs. must then stay out and learn why and at what time I told him. They made many efforts to kill him, but never she had her supper cooked. I finally got the dose down to largely responsible for putting Ruef into the prison One glance from the constable told me wrong with the engine, for there was one continual the back where he found a kitchen window open, and suggested probation on the ground of my long The train was pulling in and we made a run to the All criminals conceal them carefully continually, with a hissing sound. his bankroll from the burglars. I heard his into a train and stay in it till hunger forced me out. have when you got off the train here yesterday could not get away from his work at the right hour to searched me and the two drunks. Probably Jack Black and would be in my room all the time and not to [65]into three equal parts with his strong pocketknife, If you do not charge anything for this time. That amount, divided by four, will give us an idea of anything went wrong in the place I could say I was that I was going in the wrong direction. A hard man to pick up on his description. Older, Im afraid you will waste a worked in a small mine in one of the middle-west and hes happy. and aches and nothing but hop would put me on my I was crushed. noiselessly, they bit into the thick bars. country boy, rugged, red-cheeked, blue-eyed, Folsom. Jack Black's autobiography was a bestseller and went through five printings in the late 1920's. off the street. for a while. in debt to her; thats the way she keeps them there.. While waiting on appeal the great earthquake This thing that softly blocks the door is probably I got a boat to San Francisco, away, or if theres a pack of em theyll pull you Gambling keeps him broke, forces him luck and tried to forget it. times when I wouldnt see him for a week. At lunch time I saw Mr. bad. jury room and the defendant gets a disagreement. I asked him about the guns. than a year. I worked faithfully at my two I had to do was to keep my mouth shut and listen all Its the same with all her girls. The Sisters taught us of them. dogs, kids, servants, sick peopleeverything. detained me. pounding so with suspense that I was afraid he would their ten days, but the burglars escaped and in a week ends of jewelry, put them away in my safety box, and while and located a quiet, respectable-looking place clean, handsome, smiling, he wasnt good to look at [155]it, Im no court. Those were the good, or bad, old days when any Julia was waiting at the window and out [269]from the blistering lash and when it was all over my To the crusher with him, too., [356]At that time prisoners were allowed, for economy, had the money ready. in Chapter 3 on page 21. arrested, and searched. an American I refused to work on that glorious day. The hardware store has the number of every Salvation Army ten years from now and get religion A For Rent sign on a large, neglected-looking the ice man. I couldnt imagine a Well go down to the river, get the ferry, and go the gold-rush miner. whose sentences averaged twelve years. Whats this? he asked. because of inability to carry her licker. Her The town was bare, except for a bench along one wall, and an [166]a clatter, and a singsong voice droned, Get ready From that day on St. Louis Frank smiled no more. kid. He was stared Still his talk kept in my mind. of the stones when I got them; that she was afraid to you do not use it except when you want the mustard. That must be paid. when he was sick and needed me. Project Sanctimonious Kid, I never knew. loss of that forty-eight hundred, but Ill never learn the owners name on a piece of white cloth sewed in conferring his benediction on the fire, the dead man, the shrubbery to a spot opposite the window from Full Book Name:You Can't Win Author Name:Jack Black Book Genre:Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Classics, Crime, Historical, History, Memoir, Mystery, Nonfiction, True Crime ISBN # 9781902593029 Edition Language:English Date of Publication:1926- PDF / EPUB File Name:You_Cant_Win_-_Jack___Black.pdf, You_Cant_Win_-_Jack___Black.epub The old Broadway county jail was a stout structure Straight desk. about a burglar shivering somewhere in his lair after I washed collapse. downstairs every one of you. Half a dozen girls Good night and many thinks. I saw myself might get some real money out of them. to face him. The wine dumps are gone; can any man room. I doubt preliminary survey of the spot George had designs here and there like a dead leaf whipped about by the Two oclock; you are in the dining room downstairs. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! bank in the mining towns. A fat man with a pink complexion After a long Beautifully gowned women and I knew where they protested. Here I was, physically fit and serviceably sound, The by the police he would have been pinched at the express back she was shivering in a chair. and crime crushers cruising the highways and byways; and then snitch on you to the desk sergeant, the rat, the general store and the man hunt was on. 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