CONTENTS.

Chapter Page
Editor's Note[9]
I.Boyhood and Early Crime[15]
II.My First Fall[34]
III.Mixed Ale Life in the Fourth and Seventh Wards[50]
IV.When the Graft Was Good[73]
V.Mamie and the Negotiable Bonds[89]
VI.What the Burglar Faces[107]
VII.In Stir[132]
VIII.In Stir (Continued)[154]
IX.In Stir and Out[182]
X.At the Graft Again[202]
XI.Back to Prison[228]
XII.On the Outside Again[255]
XIII.In the Mad-House[300]
XIV.Out of Hell[332]
Editor's Postscript[348]