Wilder Publications You can't win, complete and unabridged by jack black, paperback/jack black

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My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall.

All manner of crimes against property.

Arrests, trials, acquittals, convictions, escapes.

Penitentiaries I see in the background four of them.

County jails, workhouses, city prisons, Mounted Police barracks, dungeons, solitary confinement, bread and water, hanging up, brutal floggings, and the murderous straitjacket.

I see hop joints, wine dumps, thieves' resorts, and beggars' hangouts.

Crime followed by swift retribution in one form or another.

I had very few glasses of wine as I traveled this route.

I rarely saw a woman smile and seldom heard a song.

In those twenty-five years I took all these things, and I am going to write about them.

And I am going to write about them as I took them - with a smile.