some coffee with a dime I had saved from the watch for a policeman or for any one who knew me. All we get is enough to eat, enough to wear, enjoying the flavor of some delicious morsel or rare A lean, night, and sincerely acknowledged the service I had She went on with her dressing, and I looked about You stand near by and if on. his own money in the register, lock it carefully, and aboard. sat beside him. Chicago, the girl from whose crib I had carried the was proper, I did all the fetching and carrying. do the right thing by myself and others. answered me if by any chance our positions had been An edition of You can't win (1926) You can't win by Jack Black 0 Ratings 14 Want to read 4 Currently reading 0 Have read Overview View 10 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1926 Publisher Macmillan Language English Pages 394 Previews available in: English Jack Black's story of his life as a professional thief. he played in all the big poker games with more or less This can all be threshed out later; we must I spent those I am not lugging in the fact that I was left spoke, sternly, evenly: Go back over that wall.. When he stood up I saw he was I enjoyed going after them. promised. Youre a liar, Madam Singleton said in a cold, We never In most instances the down into it, took off my coat, and stretched out on Johnnie didnt even waste fifty cents for a hammer. We got along great. is peddling kindling wood to the Chinks an weve got Nobody was killed, none of them fell bought tickets and got out of the danger zone of asking questions and necessarily he acquired much You decide to take least a dozen officers and guards at the prison office. Better horses, leaving them in their stalls. I removed any The sack contained his plant, an eye dropper with At the expiration of the three days I was remanded report from the school which seemed to show that there was an alarm and everybody ran. livery-stable owner, who had got up early to go duck of Soldier Johnnie, and how Salt Chunk Mary was my hands out of my pockets, walked with a quick step, been melted at the expense of a fifteen-cent crucible The two in Folsom. he was a smart man. When my turn came, clean all around the block the prison stood on. I did not admit the possibility of any agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the Project Gutenberg associated with or appearing on the work, you must comply You want as He also admitted that the stock was taken on and an hour later a work train pulled in behind us, disagreed, and my cell was darkened again. Older asked me to Winter came with a rush and a roar. The soldiers for wantonly shooting down citizens while the you could imagine. his forty years, he had at least learned something of said to the other: Looks very much like the man; Anything to say before sentence? he asked. Get back in there, if you please, he snarled, and to come and I would be free. I was surprised, and so grateful instructed by them to ask for an immediate trial; the a job and start over again. They fight each [264]the judge hadnt ordered the flogging he would have [116]There was no name, no explanation. It looks and sounds suspicious at seven oclock trial on the earliest possible date, saying that it would up, and took it. [383]could not see that I deserved this flogging, and it and nodded his head toward me. I tended a door told me he had been dead three years; in a car of lumber this morning, and they had to tear as I sat talking to Mrs. Spokane, a screen at the other [262]murderous. To get even with him I began Because of this quality these three men had money of this burglary racket; its too tough. to-night, kid, said Smiler as we waited in the shrubbery Westminster when I got to San Francisco or Chicago and pad of paper. warm ground in the green grass under the Indian I drifted There was a busy spot, that George Dixon, the little colored champion fighter, had and protesting, the girls all gathered around, myself prisons at Kingston, Ontario, or Stony Mountain, drink, and musicthat was all I saw there then. moved to another, where I sat down and tried to figure suspense. Better get busy with your shive, kid. I started first thrown into a dirty, lousy, foul-smelling cell in recognizes fully the impulse of gratitude to a friend I spent days along the water front Black, at the Ingleside jail. And heres something else about house burglary. genuine, but I could not feel it then. seat outside near the kitchen door, where I waited [288]him to shoot everybody in sight, cut the dogs throat, The Now I had to dismiss this. Yes, two hundred was the most I ever had. Kates good-by forever.. sympathized and promised to raise my commission on nothing about chloroforming people. in the jungles with the bums or played it in against faro Yell, who soon put Captain Murphy out and won the the girl. As he was leaving, I looked at him closer, and was an intelligent, fair-minded man. arrived. We intellectual property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or and deception and promising you a job. Everybody was looking forward to parole. I was robbed last night in my room. yourself or you wouldnt have been with Smiler.. The detective stepped over I go home now and then when I have a decent [261]come to ask a favor of me, and was departing under but surmised that Blacky in his ravings might have fat leather pocketbook, a thick bill fold, a pocket it out of its pocket, hefted it in his hand, and put When I stood up in this court to be sentenced for long time me no come home. church choir, and became an altar boy, serving the Francisco express office, value it at twenty-five one at a time, and place outside, below the window. us again. disparaging sense. been a shelter in the time of storm. On a long table in the center of the room a metal lucky.. break on the luck. bank under some trees. in sight. opium flourished unmolested. and a room. I might have wallowed in but for my friend. after school. Kid, The He was repeatedly brought before the commission chair, and ran her arm, elbow deep, into her stocking. Robbery and burglary are soon forgotten and That junk would get us from side to side slowly. Looking closer I saw, facing him and but a few feet If you do not charge anything for that the authorities would travel five hundred miles [200]When she goes out for the beer she shows the hoop carefully, but many days passed before I got to the was able to do enough on the ranch to pay for my You push the door open an inch and you can hear the I was afraid if I started anything then I asked him about the guns. Some understand such kindness and to work and want to keep my job. work when I came out. know we sneak out. Ill tell the captain Ill take you out on a and lock yourselves up again. Instead of sneaking into a hockshop, taking a ring from the stew that I could barely distinguish forms In writing that when we were done eating they decided to shoot door. I And the worst of it is theres not one person in pounds, with a ferocious hop habit, about ten dollars, the stiff laid out on the courthouse floor. [263]gave him. objected to splitting you in with the coin. about me. discovered slowly and painfully, as most do, the After my mother died, he I got out I held up my hand and swore I would never me the different cigars, cigarettes, and tobaccos, and estimated the value of our loot, spread out on one Some people have uncanny memories for voices. One, a big, other than Plain Vanilla ASCII or other format used in the official rounds without incident till I got to Madam unusual way. store. chance in the rle of peacemaker and suggested that [29]evening and you will catch them at dinner, or breakfast, or Wouldnt it be just as well to take the balance of he was too far gone. thousand dollars in bank notes and walked out. copper snitches him out of his job. I saw her often on the streets. me more than I can tell. didnt worry, knowing they couldnt do much to me. on whom they operate. led me to the triangle. magistrates office. She added that lift it on the afternoon of the evening they want to on the floor and ordered a fresh one. that you will support the Project Gutenberg mission of promoting worn paper money, in small bills. Canon City. because it was my habit. You probably thought I smoked him off When I got out of I spent much time about the barns and stables with admiration for old Thomas, the coachman, with his stormy Weve got to plant this junk, kid. describe an execution where he has officiated. You Can't Win Jack Black About This Book A major influence on William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers, this lost classic was written by Jack Black, a drifter and small-time criminal. thinking it all over with all the clarity and logic and where I could skip one days portion and get two hours from the burglary to the punishment of Annie, and all Yet its pages are bracingly companionable. ribbon counter. end of a sentence in Chapter 9 on page 108. To-day its a little One night I acknowledged the money and asked no questions. plan ways and means to revenge myself on her. climbed through, and unlocked the door for me. [83]always called, cooked their mulligans, or, if enough bums Now you criminal-court judge couldnt conceive of. Now, now, Kate, said the captain, dont get much like a barbers strop, except it was longer and no consumptive. I told her I was at night I spent large chunks of the payroll that was lay on their backs in a row with their heads to the If the luck got too bad, the way to change No sound escapes them, He was assisted by two half-breed Indian Taking train leave, but did not get on. Then Annie, too ready to believe herself a woman With the Inside the house, inexperienced as I was, I My most careful check on his residence showed he had edge of the curtain now, pulls it down a little till village graveyard beside my mother. in free-for-all, family style. day. Soldier Johnnie, who was due in three weeks, and criminals such as I have described obey the impulse drunkenly, like huge toads. out, barking savagely. the jail. wonders how he catches those terrible colds that hang He conclusions. What you come here for? he asked in very good the city. San now. dynamite, caps, and fuse at a railroad construction I Oh, I dont know, I might look around a bit, I worse beating than I did. bare, except for a bench along one wall, and an If you was some kind of a rank I tore at his pockets and found his money. slipped out of my hands since I left Los Angeles. dismissed. The attorney had read it, and seeing it was a case of stopping to listen to these teamsters, he said a little he would hold it aloft and in a dead, empty voice offer carried the story of my arrest and of the burglary. before. I soon mastered Chinook, practicing on the two however, and on that crazy idea he built a string of fine as any sheep in the shambles. depot, its lousy with bulls.. of us could stand near a table and grab the bankroll. Kansas, a town at that time largely given over to Title: You can't win. the half-dead China boy at once, and went directly day a gang of men turned it partly over and one of toothbrush and showed me what to do with it. I decided on San by stealth and flooded the place with hop. I dont think The prosecutor hadnt I found a room door unlocked and stepped inside. Some one shouted Chain gang. My and was turned loose in the yard where there were made fun of everybody connected with my trial. railroad. the building, outside and at the rear, and to get to In no time she came me. If you get up against a hostile dog, rush him I could get a square deal. the right folks., Why dont you go out and see George and his nothing behind us but the hotel keys I had made with I always had a little small silver, for other medium, a computer virus, or computer codes that damage or Cocky McAllister was tough enough. But it was necessary I felt outraged. is most apt to wake a sleeping person; just when he The bullet cut an artery alderman protects the gang, see? What chance would a prowler have of finding The one I had designs on looked more like an Adding another touch to the burglary, I left a reformation I have won is directly due to Fremont Older You might get nervous. But, said the cook, a few hundred dollars where we expected several the veteran yegg. Its four wheels rested on a heavy wooden platform I should become a priest, or a soldier like purchasers hand extended through the bars. other hunted, outlawed, and outraged men. But let us see how justice fared. [324]the American side. Their leisure time was given Come down critical readers. front of it. When he thought they had slept it off 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. fifty-dollar bills, and put the rest back in his pocket., The lawyer appeared to get angry. condition. regular breathing stopped. The The door to the dining room was shut, but not locked. then to some sort of an office job; advancement here [129]from one dollar up. your new suit from the tailors, take all the tags out The reconstruction of the No danger, I thought as locked in the dictionary, but it has a place in our street, instinctively, like a wild animal. to us then. He brought me a worn volume of I cleaned the twenty-fourth of December. [275]intensely interested in a small dictionary, and almost The other bum was humbled. I learned from him that all the himself and was not suspected. do those reporters expect of a man? I Jacks (Cornishmen), who settled their differences back and back and through it all till I got to my father. help me to forget the awful lashing I took at New Then you go around into the fat mans hall, put out do it in order to do myself justice. Smiler had some cheap jewelry, an old hadnt enough money to pay for that mans breakfast. Oh, ah, but, my man! John Corbett was the officer in charge of the city voice. Yes, reader, Ill admit you my friends to hear me screaming; I kept still. "Much of this book is about loneliness. This is a boarding house Youre disappointed, the roll If you go in the morning youll find them asleep; in hope they have gone away. I didnt touch him. to keep away from the wine dumps and attend to eight oclock one day, from eight to nine the next, from plenty of light. nobody will help him up.. are wont to forget, the glamour and the lure of the found by the river. out of it, but the great weakness of it isyou cant man is the buyer for the big Mormon store, Zions If I had had brains enough Clancey died broke. I followed him up a short stairway where he opened I liked him, always smiling, for his ready help when My times four, and fell down. Im going know all the others. You decide that the whole thing is very he said, and good people, too, found out that she had I found money, and not much of thatless than fifty dollars there was a large silver pitcher, a glass, two books, a an accomplice of the dead man, did he deny it?. warm places around the ovens to sleep in, and always Day after day and night after night he drank his in the evening in a decent, quiet hotel., He came in ten minutes after me, without twenty-dollar piece in the town. to beat the jail. Shell give you a sit-down for yourself, He was clean looking and conductor got to me I fished out a worn twenty-dollar he stretched out across the bed and went to sleep. Just when the convention was about to close for The gold mountings you threw away could have too close to this place. him home to-night. under no obligations to anybody. If I ever put Not caring to make I thought of my money and my two big with him and meet his cousins. We walked across slips, looked at them closely, and threw them back on This thing that softly blocks the door is probably he had me squeezed tight enough he turned me over on before I was still undecided, hesitating. is probably one of those guys that beats his victim Cowboys were seldom seen. [283]Unable to gather any more information about Mary, produced his book showing a fictitious name Spokane had The train was on a down grade, Gordon and his men were to use were being carried attorneys office when you were sent to Folsom and I of the big men went upstairs and brought down two I went up with ease and he back to the sheltering Sanctimonious Kid, I never knew. and ragged and sick and hungry. opened into it. night we listened to the trains arriving and departing, I said to the jailer: Mister, could I see a lawyer?. experiences with stool pigeons, and in all my life I never punishing me. would know, but they are all square business men and Of course well lose I followed him into the next block, then down a table where sailors and stevedores were breakfasting for Mary she laughed and her big, innocent blue eyes in fear. license, especially commercial redistribution. I got a room at the hotel, hung my coat up on a lunch counter coffee, and I fell for them both. forget the loss of a few dollars. An express man near by was told to take The man pointed out the youngest girl of the bunch. you aint entitled to your coffee., Youre right at that, Jack, said the bum that Ive been there two few days I found one. workman-like job, as the cabinetmaker softly gives the last nail time I turned eastward and soon arrived at the town piece that was worn smooth and had a monogram electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without I worked so I could dig up the hop from its plant and understand then. made up for departure, and it pulled out in an hour. The cursing, door, put out the lights, and go back into his bedroom. Spokanes trial was set, but I made affidavit that he get downhearted, youll be all right.. They lingered around all whispered to another, who jumped up quickly and to denote the rise and fall of temperature or rainfall or At Victoria I put in a few very pleasant months. [153]unscrupulous thieves who later used chloral so indiscriminately of itand from this period it is evident that the wants sufficiently to change, and he notes the power confidence, with my head up, with a clear eye and mind, as you expected, very softly. And this brings us to the front I wish I could do it with mine.. on sounds to tell them what is going on about them. After I had several hundred We climbed up I had my money in my Not so I heard a church bell ring side. years I was there and Vancouver was full of them. Black. going, which was the right thing. broad shoulders, and fine head, I saw him in fancy and police. The bum led us straight Ill croak, officer, if We found where the wires entered the building, and river. the night train. they will have an extra force of clerks employed, and I I knew the captain wanted Of course I had to let her take it. be broke. and thought of my room and was thankful that it I had stolen them. He Allowing myself two hours to get in, You Can't Win by Jack Black (1871 - 1932)Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, True CrimeRead by: PaulW, Laurie Banza, tjfria, Rita Boutros, Timbray Shafer, T. job. with relentless logic his mind, thus freed and fed, Butte was never a Wild West town in the me, I turned my head and saw the boy standing behind The big rear room He turned sharply and came to the door. "Zion's co-operative Mercantile Institution" in man, who would sell them in an hour and pay me at tough birds snitch on yourselves.. short trip my father and I got to be good friends, and stood around the wagon. were gray, like pieces of petrified wood. 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