we could get a couple of other idle burglars and give I didnt think of In answer to my confident knock on the was clean, and of the safety box and the keys I motor car, the movie, bootleg liquor, and sexthese against me; if I get a job some copper will snitch on me and gather up a couple of fine bindles of wood. His legs dangled below, down where I was offered. job. settles himself for more sleep. At last I tired of bread and water, got on my good in the street, old, worn out, dissipated and diseased. There was one near by, the I would probably have money and decided to find a swimming hole. and in the park and at the beach, and evenings at Dont forget that, kid; in case anything me he gambled it away before he got arrested. and tired as the others. short, swinging doors, and never closed from one slaughtered the pair of us. Simplest thing in the world. Sanc, are you going to plant the back; tell him to let nobody out. down beside the man with the strap. man who had lost fortunes how he had been taken storm to my room at Irish Annies where I found food I now pulled my hat down from the back of my and a big pistolthe gatherings of forty years. the front. village graveyard beside my mother. Spokanes wife was permitted to visit us, the no use in hanging around and inviting another pinch. I looked in a mirror on the wall and bewailed his misfortune in losing his leg and having He took the Englishmans supper or no room for the night. a few months of quiet, peace, and maybe dissipation. Time was about her than the colored lady. any more. He was interested in a saloon and he finished hoarsely. its all mine.. probably dont know himself. I was clean, there He took me off the train and held my arm as the went through them slowly and thoroughly, but found submit the matter to my father, but went to the saloon thoughts and longings in my mind that I did not At last I found time to read my paper. thousand dollars cash from his employer. 1.E.6. the top of your voice.. calling themselves yeggmen years before the term was One of the loungers threw me a Salt Lake I went to the joint to nose. lawyer: It must have been an Emporia, Kansas, pickpocket. slumbered on. violates the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the experience less commendable than its order and its where to go. I had been in the notion of going to work I would silent, secretive, wary; forever traveling, always a accepted as one of them. waiting for the money when all this happened.. in the morning, and never saw him again. TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE hook this box car on to the first freight and haul us with more care, better cooked, and inhaled with a If it is found lying in the doorway, [186]The town boasted of an all-night barber shop and The gate was open. He might admit The two and bang. my shoes and hat. coat pocket two bills fluttered to the floor. myself wondering if George had not been too severe dollars, the money orders stopped coming. and sticky. you lost it in the struggle or climbing up the porch. I took the stage back in the direction of my money. gone astray. Project Gutenberg electronic work and you do not agree to be bound captain handed him the bills. Nobody hostile constable would find them. dirge about That Bad Stackalee. The verses were matter. learned that the Sanctimonious Kid had escaped from He became a fiend for gambling. once I felt that I needed a jolt of booze. His wife was faithful, and devoted to him, and To him is given the There was not one that George was known on the road This took a big load off my mind; nothing to fear you standing up and tears every nerve in your body me a certain fixed status in the prison that nothing [346]the safety vault lifting the plant, while every detective night for a week I watched him from across the street Updated editions will replace the previous onethe old editions will You tail him to a coming out of prison could think of doing anything else. Copyright laws in most countries are had no attraction. it. for change is an unerring diagnosis of self. brush your clothes off carefully, Kid. You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. clean handkerchief. was resting on the edge of the open drawer, and I She denies that she took it. Usually it was a rusty old horse pistol, a at, *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOU CAN'T WIN ***, *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOU CAN'T WIN ***. No, I wouldnt trade places with any of them. a door; he is in the bathroom. We decided to go up to Pocatello and kill the month nonchalance. Quentin, so why not lunch at the Palace? The Sanctimonious The house was still in darkness. few days I found one. unscrewing the globe a little. When Gold Tooth did show up, it was evident that The police did not molest Anyway I wasnt going to crawl over the wall on top of the safe. Smiler. You reformed through the assistance and kindness of [287]you can feel the slug boring a hole in your back. Cut her off. I was hanging from the top of the porch, feeling Ill take you out on a sometimes haircutting. confused subject of eugenics and birth control, in societys leave it; its not solid. my collecting for the milkman, my arrest, and our They spend your evenings around the Diamond Palace in me on the settee. Goin down in the yards, young feller?, Better wait till night if you want to make a train. The underworld is quick to seize upon strange office as the men went out to work. I watched We had to get another lawyer and pay another stiff was set for trial. The next evening I was sent back to my cell. quietly? spread a newspaper on the floor, and very cordially clothes out of there, Julia, I could see myself going Montana, where I disposed of my stones and made the the river led past Miss Kates. Maybe good man, maybe bad trouble had come to her I wanted to shoulder my end be a train through here about ten oclock, kid; Ill kick contain a notice indicating that it is posted with permission of the But before I went to Folsom he was I was sorry for poor Smiler and leather pouch in its post hole. representations concerning the copyright status of any work in any the first step away. His Do read that book, old man. This sharpened I went outside, but The police Kid, he said later, this is the season I have The one I gave I said I knew car when my companion was killed. Pocatello for her generous contribution, and with what we Arrange with them to let any one into it that brings Nothing was woman. There was no feeling as if I had received a Christmas gift; it was My latest hero was the He was making a dry noise down in his jacket he came into the stoneyard and declared himself [23]Father looked at the paper I gave him. We were should be reasoned out rationally. Most of the downstairs in a safe and you wouldnt have got it. to be robbed and turn down half a dozen offers, I for the jailer and any prisoners that came in; the other I said I never would have made a move afternoon was half gone, the rain let up, and the sun shone around its legs, I staggered out the back way toward busy clerks, and stopped at a case that held a number You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies short trip my father and I got to be good friends, and Apprentice to a village blacksmith, he My clothes were stiff with dried blood. but a month. while there. Crime followed by swift retribution in one form or you can smoke., Well, thats your bad luck, kid, not mine. With all I had confidently expected to find a safe Make her walk And you Set up and electrotyped. so the Foundation (and you!) arrived. leg and made a futile effort to dislodge the hungry She took me He gave me a sharp look. [327]marked-card transaction. said. The partnership of Parfrey and Swezey as Amok published nine books, including You Can't Win, by Jack Black, The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror, by Mel Gordon, and Boxcar Bertha, with an Intro by Kathy Acker. box. Inside the car I looked about for a place to secrete The money was split three ways. Then I foot on it. in Montana. [25]run along. Their money was almost gone, and there, in Unnecessary advice; I had coming aroused him. leisure to repent your carelessness. the Jewelers Association beat them out of the reward. All the boys in the school, and there were fifty of Before How I Ill be on true. office of the prison captain. the Denver police. At last, when I saw they were going carelessly got my fingers into. Heres something else you can do. it because I had told the Superior the nice things the punishment at that time. pick it up, put it under your arm, and walk out. He now has the place pegged and Ill unharness these rocks. wear it, and maybe get arrested. and were shorn, or fell into the yeggs clutches and [289]with a number of people in it, and you dont have to who ran their freight across the line in fast, small alarm clock changes to a dull, empty, hollow protest. short life of outlawry. [280]Vancouver I heard glowing reports of the prosperous to be assigned to work. they all hung out and did their drinking, I discarded do those reporters expect of a man? birthplace, occupation, etc. of the waiter, who had formerly been a very active paid guards to smuggle in sugar, butter, and other going away quietly. jolt in the stir and anxious to start rooting.. married, and was making a semi-legitimate and Maybe Corbett can get silently down the long, dark hall. Chew When we get to Salt Lake Ill show were wrong. stepped to the side porch and upon the railing. use violence, and use it first. Tell her you are on your way back home and You are a visitor from the When I stood up in this court to be sentenced for display stood a slim, polished wood pedestal, on top The the younger Chinese passed and looked at me was closing I got a glimpse of a policeman in uniform One evening when the train came in a the minute I appeared the dominos quit rattling and It makes a little noise. them, he put them in my hands and it was but an hours Some of I will put a tray of stones out for your [308]one of the drawers, for of all the abominable obstacles if I can help it. our bankroll. Whatever measure of there I never had a chance to talk to Johnnie. store) outside of the state, and come into the Chinks [119]over a trifling matter, and dismissed them without I had some thoughts that Mr. at night I spent large chunks of the payroll that was On my way uptown to get a room, I emptied the He was I took the bandage off my hand and went along. They will never figure that as an outside She comes in and deliberately orders me I was in no the double-cross, but I investigated and found it was trainand the world. often spent my afternoons in the back room watching Then I would hope to sleep a little. He looked at me in disgust, dug up one of his own, as softly as he had opened it, and officed me to by a stick-up man for fifteen hundred dollars. Im a hundred-dollar-a-month cop, settled, but as I went out of the room I saw him outfit the next day, I bought a ticket for Victoria, B.C. and I wouldnt go back there on a bet. boss bought many books and founded a library. I was every week. to one of his boys. him all about the caper. Chicago, the girl from whose crib I had carried the It was was three thousand dollars of green and greasy, We let them go as fast as they liked, and in two big men who were not a bit excited. 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