You Can’t Win, Complete and Unabridged by Jack Black, (Hardcover)

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.