During our two pasta dishes, at a Provenzano corner restaurant, Jeff Peters was explaining these 3 transplants to me.

Each winter Jeff came to New York to eat spaghetti and watch

The shipping on the East River from the depths of his chinchilla coat,

Buried in Chicago Supplies Is one of the clothing corner stores in Fulton

. In the other three he could find further seasons out West - his range is from Spokane to Tampa. In his profession he takes a

pride in the philosophy of ethics which he supports and defends with conscientiousness and distinctiveness. There is nothing new in his profession. He is

incorporated into uncapitalized, unlimited asylum for the reception of

his companions restless and ill-advised dollars.

In the Stoney Wilderness, Jeff claimed his annual solitude

On holidays he happily chatted about his many adventures and as a boy would

Blow the whistle After a wood sunset. So we have to ask the question that I marked in my calendar for the time of his arrival and to place in Provenzano a privileged one about the little corner of wine Inter-dyed table

Playful rubber plant and framed palazzio della thing

wall.

"There are two types of graft," Jeff said, "which should be eliminated

by law. I mean Wall Street speculation, and burglary." <

"Almost everyone would agree with you on one of these," I said, laughing.

"Oh, Burglary, should have been eliminated, too" said Jeff, I wonder

if the laugh was unnecessary.

"About three months ago," said Jeff, "it was my privilege to become

familiar to each of the above-mentioned department's samples

Illegal Art. I was one of /sine/'s and unpopular members of the Robbery Guild and John Financial Napoleon

at the same time. "Interesting combination,' I said, with a yawn. "Did I tell you I bagged a duck-and-ground squirrel last week, at Ramapos? "I know exactly how to draw Jeff's story.

"Let me tell you these barnacles first, clog the wheels

Society's poisoned spring of integrity is like the Yubas tree

Eye, said: "Jeff has a pure line with the shit, - rake in on his own.

"Like I said, three months ago, I got into bad company. There are two

eras in a man's life when doing this - when he is dead and broken,

when he is rich.

"Now and then the most legitimate business run is luck. It was

In Arkansas, I took a wrong turn at an intersection and landed him in

This bug town Peavine. I seem to have attacked and disfigured Peavine this spring. I sold young fruit trees for $600 - plums, cherries, peaches and pears.

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The Peaviners keep an eye on the country roads, hoping that I

maybe this way too. I drive past the high street as far as the Crystal Palace Pharmacy before I realize that I When the ambush was committed

I and my white horse Bill

"The Peaviners got a surprise and Bill, bridles my horse and begins

conversation.

Fruit trees that are not completely free from this problem. A panchayat time runs certain trace elements through the chain

the armholes of my waistcoat, and through their escort and my garden

orchard.

"Their fruit trees lived up to their label. For the 'most people of the time

It turned out to be persimmon and dogwood, with a forest or two

Jolly Roger and poplar.

The only one that showed any sign of bearing

What a good young man said had raised a horse

The nest was half covered with an old corset.

“We long-term Peaviners wandered in vain to the edge of the city.

They put my watch on account and money, and kept bills and travels

Car as a hostage. They said the first time one of the dogwood trees

raised an Amsden peach in June I would come back and get my stuff

Then they took off. Down tracking chains and jerking thumbs

direction to the Rocky Mountains, while I hit Lewis and Clark Lopez

over swollen rivers and impenetrable forests

"When I regained my intellectualness I found myself becoming a walker

Unknown A: Town, T&S House Railroad. No Peaviners

leave anything in my pocket except for a chewable plug - they are not

in my life - and save it. I sat down on a chunk of the pile

The relationship of the pile to the track recogitate my feelings and thoughts

Acuity.

"Then at this time, the express freight slowed down in a small

town; and off it dropped the black bag, twenty yards in roll

The dust then got up and started spitting out bituminous coals and interjections

I thought it was a young man's face dressed up in broad, dobby goods Pullmans, and a cheerful smile. In kind

Despite all this, Phoebe Snow's chimneys are looking for work,

"' off? 'Say one

"'Nunk,' he said. 'Get off. Before I reach my destination. What town is

this?'

"' Didn't look at it on the map,' one said: 'I was there about 5 minutes ago and you didn't. How does it hit you?

"'Hard,' he said, twisting his arms from side to side. 'I believe that

shoulder - no, that's all right.

" He received a jimmy that contained a fine, nine-inch anti-theft steel that had been fraudulently handed over to brush the dust off his clothes while he was out

Pocket drop fines. He picked it up

and looked sharp at me, then smiled and held his hand.

“‘Brother,’ he said, ‘greetings. Can’t I see you in southern Missouri?

Last summer, $1 teaspoonfuls of colored half-sand were on sale

For lamps to prevent oil from exploding? '

"'Oil,' I said, 'never explodes.' This is the form of natural gas

explosion. But I shook his hand, no matter what.

"'My name is Bill Bassett,' he said to me, 'and if you take it

instead of professional arrogance, I will tell you that you must

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The best thieves in the session were having fun creating gum shoes

The Mississippi River drained the ground

"Well, I'm with this Bill Bassett. Connect and communicate, sit and brag

at the Kinship Line Artist Meeting. He didn't seem to have a penny, either, as we walked closer to the core. He explained why thieves sometimes had to travel for goods, and told me about a girl who played his fake in Little Rock and he was on a

quick call .

"'It's part of my business,' Bill Bassett said, 'to play into

tilt when I want to be as Raffles Shoal. 'Tis love, Makes

a bit go' round. Show my products too swag and nice house

Parlor Maid, you might as well call it molten silver

for sale, and I spilled truffles, napkins, stuff about the castle

According to my chin, and the police said it was just an inside job

As the old lady's nephew told the Bible class.

First, I'd like to make an

impression about the girl,' said Bill, 'when she lets me inside I

just lock the impression. But once I'm in Little Rock,'

he said. 'She saw me riding in a trolley with another girl when

I was 'that night she left my door open and the wheel

was moving rapidly. I got the key to the door upstairs. But no sir. She

made sure to cut my locks. She was a Delilah,' Bassett said of Bill.

"It seems that the draft tried to break Jimmy over him anyway, but

The girl made such a noise as the top rider bravura inherited

Meet Hao, and Bill had to deal with all the obstacles there

Since he had no baggage, they struggled to check his departure,

but his train was out.

"'Well,' Bill Bassett said, when we exchanged the memories of our dead

Lives, 'I can eat. This town doesn't look like it was based on a prostitute

Yale Locks. Suppose we commit some minor outrage that will bring

money for temporary expenses. I don't think your hair is brought along

Tonics or gold-filled watch chains, or similar, defy fraud laws

You can sell them on the affected side of the pickers square

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People, right?

“No,’ I said, ‘I left the Patagonia Elegant Collection diamond earrings

There was rain in my suitcase during a sunstorm in Peavine one day. But they Stay there

Until these black rubber trees start flooding the market with some

yellow Japanese plums I think we can't count on them

unless. We're taking our partner Luther Burbank in.'

"'Well,' Bassett said, 'we'll do what we can. Maybe later in the

darkness I'll borrow some women's hairpins and open the farmers and

banks of Deroves to the ocean. with it'

"While we are talking about pulling a passenger train through near the station

if one gets high hat off on the wrong side of the train,

< p>Come off the track on us. He's a little, fat guy

With a big nose and rat eyes, but dressed expensively and holding a handbag carefully because if It was in this egg or railroad bond. He

passed us and stayed on the track without appearing

to town.

"'Come on,' Bassett said the bill to me, after he started.

"'Where? I request it.

"'Be good! The draft said, 'Did you forget you were in the desert? Didn't you

see Colonel Manna pull down in front of your eyes? Don't you listen

Generally crows steal wings? I'm amazed at you, Elijah.

"We caught up with the stranger on the edge of some woods, and as it was

in the sun and in a quiet place, no one saw us to stop him. Bill< /p>

Lightened the man's head with his top hat and brushed it with his sleeves

and raised it back

"'What does it mean, sir?' said the man.

"'When I'm wearing one of those,' says Bill,' I feel embarrassed that I

always do it. Since I don't have one now I have to Not using yours. I simply don't know how you started explaining your business with us, sir, but I guess we'll try it in your pocket first .

"Bill Bassett felt all of this and expected disgust.

"'Not even a watch,' he said. 'Aren't you ashamed of yourself, you

whited the sculpture? To dress like a waiter, and finance

< p>Like the count! You don't even have a carfare.

So what do you do with your

transfer? '

"The man spoke up, saying he had no assets or valuables of any kind.

But Bassett put his hand on the document bag and opened it. After output , some

collars and half-socks cut out of newspapers.

Read the clips with caution, thinking his hands were holding a

party.

“‘Brother,’ he said, ‘greetings! Accept your friend's apology. I

Bill Bassett, burglar. Mr. Peters, you must make an acquaintance

Mr. Alfred Ricks. shake hands. Mr. Peters,' said Bill, 'standing between me and you, Mr. Ricks is on the line of destruction, of corruption. He always gives money and things. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Ricks - you and Mr. Peters. This is my first time

Have attended a national synod of bishops with a full collection of sharks -

Burglary, fraud, and financiering all represented. Please

check Mr. Rick's credentials, Mr. Peters.

"In a piece of newspaper draft Bassett handed me there was a nice picture of it

Ben Ricks. It was a Chicago newspaper, and it's obloquies

< p>What I gained from reading the passage was

Intelligence that Ricks said he laid off in all parts of the country was based on water entering the city. Land and sale in Florida

Allegedly innocent investor from his brilliantly furnished office

when he made over a hundred thousand dollars in a house

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These are troublemakers for always picky buyers (I've actually tried selling 'acid time' gold watches) and taken the low price

The land there is always there before dinner

Look at his lot and see it doesn't need a new fence or 2

Fences, market at Christmas present a few lemons

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Trade. He hired a surveyor to find his lot. They ran lines

looking for the most prosperous city in the Hollow Paradise, so ad,

approx. For par 40 and par 16, 27 degrees in the middle of E. than the lake. This man's fate is in 36 feet of water,

and, besides, has been occupied for so long. The Gators and the Gals

Looks like he's championship-worthy

" Of course, the man is back in Chicago making it as hot as possible.

Al Fredericks morning forecast due to snow

Bureau of Meteorology. Ricks defied the charges, but he couldn't deny the alligator. One morning the newspaper published a column about it, and Ricks came out of the fire escape. It appears the authorities allegedly raided his safe deposit box, where he kept his winnings, and Ricks is heading west! Only feetwear waiting ten

15 and half an English probe in his shopping bag. His sightings had

Some mileage left in his books, and took him to town

In the wilderness where he spread, the bill carried me to Bassett

< p>Leah III. Didn't see a single crow on any of us.

"Then this Al Fredricks makes him hungry, too, squeaky,

and denies that his assumptions are of good value, let alone

The price of a meal. So, there are three people, represented if

We are determined to use syllogisms and parabolas, labor and trade

Now, when trade has no capital. Not a bargain is made. When there's no money in the capital there's a stagnation and an onion.

p> "'Brothers built in the jungle,' Bill Bassett said, 'never, trouble, no good friends.' Hard, in vascular wood, I seem to see empty houses

Accommodation. Let's go there and wait for dark.

"There was an old, abandoned cabin in the woods, and the three of us

own it. After nightfall Bill Bassett told us to wait and go down again

< p>for half an hour. He came back with bread and armful

ribs and pie.

"'Panhandled' at a farmhouse on Ouachita Avenue," he said. 'Eat,

drink, it's empty.

"The full moon was coming out of the light, so we sat on the

cabin and ate its light. And the Ordinance Bassett began to

brag.

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"'Sometimes,' he said, his mouth full of national production, 'I lose

All the people who are patient with you think you are in higher growth

Professional than me. Now, either you do

The current emergency is set on our feet? Can you do this,

Ricksy? '

"'I must admit, Mr. Bassett,' said Rickles, speaking almost inaudibly

out of a share of the pie,' and at this moment I immediately Can't,

perhaps, promote business, ease the situation.

As I direct, it naturally requires careful preparation,

I-'

"'I know, Ricksy,' rested Bassett on the bill. 'You don't have to finish. You

need $500 to make the first payment on the blond typewriter, 4

roomsful quarters with oak furniture. You need more 500 yuan

Advertising contract. You need two weeks before the fish

start biting. Your relief line may be useful in a

as the city urgently claims ownership of a man who was cured of suffocation

by 80 cents of gas. And your transplant isn't much faster, bro

Peters,' he blew.

"'Oh,' I said, 'I don't see you turning to gold with any of your stuff

Still, good sir fairy. 'Most people can rub one Magic Ring

There are very few food reserves left,

"'This is the only pumpkin that's ever ready," said Bassett, braggy and

< p>Happy. 'The coaches and six'll raise the gate before you know

It's Miss Cinderella. Maybe you have some plans up your sleeve,

Hold will give us a start.

"'Son,' I said, 'I'm 15 years older than you, and

not young enough to come up with a donation policy. I've been there before that happened. We

could see the lights of the city less than half a mile away

I learned that Montague Silver, the largest common man, was speaking from a van. >

There are hundreds of people walking the streets at the moment

Gimme a gasoline lantern, a dry goods box and a $2 white cassette with their clothes greased. Tilia Soap, will be cut into small pieces - '

"'If you two bucks? 'Snickering into my words Ordinance Bassett.

There is no anti-theft argument used.

"No," he continued, "you two, baby, light up the wood. The Treasury is closed

The mahogany table, and the trade has shuttered. Take a look, y'all

The wheels are turning. You admit it tonight.

I'll tell you what Bill Bassett can do.

Si told me not to leave the cabin until he came back,

even if it was daylight, and then he first went to town, whistling

Gay.

"This Al Fredericks took off his shoes and his coat, laid a silk handkerchief over his hat, and laid it on the floor.

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"'I think I'll try to get a little sleep,' he squeaked.

'This day has been tiring. Good night, dear Mr. Peters.

" 'My regards, Morpheus,' said one; 'I think I will sit down for a while.

"About two o'clock, as near as I can guess I The Peavine watch,

the family came to our labor and kicked the ricks and called our

streaks shining brightly in the moonlight. Then he dropped

5 packages of 1,000 yuan each on the floor and

started chattering like eggs in the nest.

"'I'll tell you a few things about the city,' he said. 'It's named Lodge Hot Springs, and they're building a Franciscan temple , it looks

as the Democratic candidate for mayor is going to get soaked by the epidemic, Judge and Tucker's wife, who has been down with pleurisy, is

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Get some good ones. I have a thesis call about these liliputian before

I can get a siphon in the knowledge that I am in the fountain

There are banks there. Called Lumberjack's Fidelity and Lohman's

The index was in business yesterday with $23,000 in cash on hand this morning - all silver.

That's why I didn't bring more. With you, trade and capital. '

" 'My young friend,' said Al Fredericks, raising his hand, 'have you robbed this bank? Dear me, dear me!

"'You can't say that,' Bassett said." Zed's voice was harsh.

All I had to do was find it on the streets. The city was so< /p>

Quiet, I can stand in the corner and hear the wine glasses clicking

In that safe lock - 'right 45; left twice to 80; once and for all to 60;

< p>Left 15" - Like an order from Yale to a captain on the plains

Football dialect. Now, kids,' said Bassett, 'this is an early

town. They tell All my citizens and stirred before the day. I asked as breakfast was ready

What kind of happy robin it must be and

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I want your share.

Say it.

"My dear young. Friend, 'said it was a Ricky's chinchilla,

standing on his hind legs and with acrobatic nuts in his paws,' I have

who's in Denver Friends will help me. If I had a hundred dollars, I-'

" Bassat unpins the currency package and throws five 20-somethings

ricks.

"'Trade, how much? 'he said to me.

“‘Take your money, labor,’ said one: ‘I never asked for an honest draw

To suffer a hard-earned pittance. What I got was a dollar surplus< /p>

It was burning damfools and dinging pockets as I stood

on a street corner and sold a solid gold diamond ring to Yap's

$3.00. , I raised just $2.60. I knew he would give a girl $125.00 in return. His profit was $122.00. ' 'When you sell a poor woman a pinch of fifty cents, Isha

she stays away from the blast,' said Bassett, 'what are you Character, she

The total income will be at 40 cents per ton? Sand'

"'Listen,' said one: 'I taught her to keep herself clean and well lighted

Filled. If she didn't say it couldn't break. With sand too she

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Knowing it can't, she shouldn't worry. It's an industry

She pays 50 cents and gets both Rockefeller and Mrs. Eddy in. Work.

Not everyone can let the gold dust

The twins do their job.

"Al Fredericks was all but Bill Bassett licking the dust from his shoes.

"'My dear young friend,' he said, 'I will never Your generosity will be forgotten

. God will reward you. But let me implore you to turn

from violence and criminality.

"'Mousie,' said Bill, 'in the holes for your wainscoting. You

Dogma and inculcations sound to me like a bicycle's last words

Pump. What noble moral plunder do you bring to your penuriousness and hope, who

holds the contamination. With the theory of The Art of Robbery

the gilded rules of his life in Lift

The Peters Brothers,' said Bill, 'you better choose.

This piece contains currency. You're welcome.

"I told Bill Bassett to put money in his pocket again. I've never

had the respect of burglars, some people. I will always

money for something I take part in, even if it's just something small

as a reminder that 'em not to be caught.

"Then Al Fredericks Grovels stood up at Bill's and we bid

goodbye. He said he would have a team on a farm and Drive to the

station below and take the Denver train. It's salubrified

When this sorry atmosphere rings out he's a worm. >

Shame on every non-industry in the country

His big plans and fine offices are over and he can't even get an honest meal

Only by. A strangely kind and perhaps unscrupulous thief. I was glad to see him, although I felt a little sad for him. Now he is ruined for all eternity. Not

What about the big capital job? Why, Al Fredericks, we left him,

because it was incapable of working anymore. Plan

A little girl beat a 1-cent slate and a pencil

“A little trick I did when Bill Bassett and I were left alone at home

<. p>Remember the ultimate trade secret my head turned on it. I thought to myself,

I will show this Mr. Burglar the difference between business and

labor. He hurt me by casting some professional self-adulation

According to commerce and trade of the Persians.

"'I will not make a gift of your money, Mr. Bassett,' said I

"But if you wages, my traveling companion," he said, "until We fee

Get out of the loss-making danger zone you've created

This city's finances, tonight, I'm going to have to.

" Bill Bassett. Agreeing with this, we hiked west as soon as we

could catch the train safely.

"When we got to a small town in Arizona called Los Peros I suggested

that we try our luck again on terra cotta. This is home

Montagu Silver, my old business coach, is now retired. I know Montagu will make money from my site's shares if I can prove he's buzzing. Round place. Bill Bassett said all the towns were watching him

Mainly because he had been in the dark So we got off the train in Los Angeles

Fine in the silver district town

"I have a classy little way sure thing is business

I'm going to slap the basset behind the ears.

I'm not

going to take his money while he's asleep, but I'm going to leave

His winning ticket will represent his experience

$4755 - I think this was given to him when we got off the bus.

But the first time I hinted at his investment, he turned on me

and disencumbers the following terms and expresses himself.

"'Brother Peters,' he said, 'it would be a good idea to get into a

enterprise of some sort, you suggested. I think I would. But, If I did

It would be such a cold proposition, but no one Robert E. Peary and

Cha Fairbanks would be able to sit on the board.

"'I thought you might want to give your money away,' one said

"'I,' he said, 'often I can't sleep through the night.

I tell you, brother Peters,' he said, 'I'm going to start a poker room. I don't care about scams like mundane egg selling and jobs. Over breakfast food and Barnum

Bailey's sawdust in the circus ring but gambling

The business,' he said, was a very profitable one. OK

A compromise between swiping on silver spoons and selling penwipers

Waldorf Charity Bazaar

"'Well,' I said, 'Mr. Bassett, you don't care about negotiating my little business?

“‘Ah,’ he said, ‘you know, you can’t get to the Institut Pasteur within 50 miles of where I live. I bite So little.

"So, Bassett rents are cheaper than a one-bedroom apartment and expect some close proximity to

furniture and chromos. That same night I went to Monty Silver's house, and he gave me $200 toward my future. Then I went to the house that only stores

playing cards sold in Los Peros for every deck bought. The next morning when the store opened I was there to put all my cards back. I said that my partner was going to get back

In the game I had changed my mind and I wanted to sell the card

back. The store owner offered 'half price time'.

"Yeah, I'm $75 lost so far. Even though I

have been stuck every night, I'm in one of every deck. That's

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Labour. Then trade and commerce had its innings and bread I

He called upon the waters to begin to return in the form of bungalows

Pudding wine juice. /p>

“Of course, I was one of the first to buy chips for Bill Bassett’s game.

He bought the only card there was going to be in the town and I knew it

Each one they knew better than I did the back of my head

When I Two mirrors showing my hairdresser getting a haircut.

"When the game was over, I had 5,000 and some multi-dollars,

All Bill Bassett had was the stray black cat, and he

bought the mascot. Bill shook my hand as I left. "'Brother Peters,' he said, 'I'm not supposed to be in business. I

am destined to work. When Thief No. 1 tried to take James

from his microphone, he committed improfundity. You have a well-functioning and effective system of luck cards,' he said. 'Peaceful compliance

you. Afterwards, I never saw Bill Bassett. "

*****

"Well, Jeff," I said, when the Autolycan adventurer seemed to have

revealed his story "Spirit , I hope your money is taken care of.

This would be a respecta - it is a considerable amount of working capital if

You should opt for some kind of regular business that you can one day settle into

. "

"Me? "Jeff said, Jide. "You can bet I take care of 50,000 people.

"

He appointed his coat over the chest area with great joy.

"Gold mining stocks," he explained, "come penny by penny. Par value of shares

$1. It will definitely increase by 500%. Within a year. Not

taxable. Blue Gopher Mine. Just discovered it a month ago. Better

Make your own if you don't have the extra dollars. "

"Sometimes," I said, "these mines aren't-"

"Oh, this one's solid," said Jeff. "Half a million

The dollar value mine is in sight, and ten percent. Monthly income

Guaranteed.

He drew the long envelope from his pocket and dropped it on the table.

“Always carry it with you,” he said. “So the thief cannot damage it or

Breaking down capitalism and water. "

I looked at the beautifully engraved certificate on the stock.

"In Colorado, I see," I said, "and, by the way, Jeff, what on earth< /p>

The name of the little man who went to Denver - the one station where you and Bill met

? "

"Al Fredericks," Jeff said, "is the title of Toad. "

"I see," I said, "President Ben Mining Company marked himself

Crob Fredericks. I wonder - "

"Let me see that stock," said Jeff quickly, almost snatching it from

me.

To alleviate , even with slight embarrassment I summoned the waiter and ordered another bottle of Barbera. I thought it was the least I could do. /p>

It should be these!