Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-01-05
TIE sRETI q E \ ]. BURGLAR,
Has Much Dlmc Guilty n Taking Up the
Wars OF = Law Abiding
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For a long time after t had given 81
1sup business, = said the retired burglar,
| q had great difficulty in: accommodate
ling myself to the ordinary conditions
LOT life. Seems to me I:told you once
some hing about tina t. how II couldn't
get into the habit Of eating and sleep
ting at the hours Of other people, and
q had difficulty in getting back in other
ways, too, so strong is the force of
habit. .s5. 49,
S. There were some curious things
about this that might never occur to
you at all. For instance in those days.
if I came home late at night, that is,
AT the hour at which formerly had
gone into other peoples houses, never
went in at my own front door; fused
to go in at a cellar wind low. This was
bad; it was like amanwho had resolved
Ito quit drinking taking a drink occa-
%sionally; he is in constant danger Of
falling back into old habits; but IL
off all at once And then. Lmade it easy
for myself too. When I locked up the
cellar nights I used to leave a cellar
window unfastened so that it was per-
fectly easy for me to get in.
Il SHUT one night, or one morning,
rather, abouts two O'Clock, when I got
around to that window found it fast
Eened, and I knew well enough what
had happened My wife had a perfect
horror of burglars. and I knew she
must have been around the cellar after
me and seen the window unfastened
and turned the buttons. But that was
no impeachment to me lit made me
laugh to myself to think how easy it
was, and I opened the window and slid
in as usual.
Besides having a horror of burglars
my wife was great on pickles and pre-
serves and jellies and that sort of thing,
which !. she used to put up herself and
keep down cellar on a hanging shelf,
consisting of "a nice broad plank sus-
pended by side pieces nailed to the floor
beams overhead. don't know how I
did itas a general thing we never
do know how we come to do things
but when I slid in that night I got
turned in some way so that I was in
danger of falling, and threw up my
arm instinctiyely to save myself and
my hand touched the end of that shelf
I'd often said it was too near the
window, and the first thing she knew
somebody'd come along and clean it
%all out .and naturally enoughfit closed
over the board. And the sport of it
was that I yonked that end of the shelf
free from its support and pulled il
down, and the bottles and Jars went
slam scattering down on the cellar
ottom-and ] went down among 'em.
Somehow / managed to cut myself
up pretty bad on the. broken glass, ard
I was pretty we'll used up otherwise.
Thesupshot Of that experiment was that
I stayed in the house six weeks to re
pair damages, and as matter Of fact
that did more to bring me back to the
ways Of other people than anything
|. else I was half helpless at first, and
I gradually became accustomed to the
habits of the house. By the time was
able to go out again, indeed, I had
quite fallen into the ordinary ways and
/ hours of living. ] got up when other
people did and came in early nights,
and came in with night key instead Of
q jimmy, just as natural as could be-
N. Y. Sun.
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