I went there eight times, and there was always some jackass of an excuse for crowdin' me out, and I don't know if I'll ever get in agin.

Night afore last I busted a window with a brick and tried to crawl in through the hole, but the boy fired a gun at me, and said if I'd just wait till Mr.Murphy came back he'd have me arrested for burglary.
"Now, I think I've been treated mighty bad.

I've got a right in that jail, and it's pretty mean in a man like Murphy to shove me off in weather like this; and I'm bound to live six months in the prison some time or other, whether he likes it or not.

I don't mind puttin' myself to some trouble to oblige a friend, but I hate like thunder to be imposed on.
"'Pears to me it's no way to run a penal institution any way.

There's Botts; he's in jail for perjury for nine years, and Murphy's actually turned that convict out so often and made him run 'round after his meals that Botts has lost heart, and has gone to canvassin' for a life insurance company--gone to perambulatin' all over the country tryin' to do a little somethin' to keep clothes on his back, when he ought to be layin' serenely in that jail.