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By Jack Joseph Smith

a bit of bragging about the scoring of the machine, and there is an icebox filled with beer from which the gang is really . The night passes into drunkeness and play, but there is not sex other than petting. Hark! there is loud pounding on the door. It is like thunder to the gang, for obviously it will be the police coming through shortly. Soon the door is butted open, and the rush is on. Next we see the boy Jack Frost, making his way over fences through the back yards of wealthy homes. Next he is in a well fit young boys room with a fine desk, and bound books on the shelves. Now

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The narrator describes beer and petting, a forced door and Jack Frost moving through wealthy back yards into a boy's room.

The narrator anticipates police as someone pounds on the door, then follows Jack over fences to a well fit young boys room with a desk and bound books. The writer leaves the room's owner unnamed and an earlier handwritten word unread.

Claude

The basement night continues with 'a bit of bragging about the scoring / of the machine' and 'an icebox filled with beer', passing into 'drunkeness and play, but there / is not sex other than petting', until 'Hark! there is loud pounding / on the door', the door is 'butted open, and the rush is / on.' Next Jack Frost makes his way 'over fences through / the back yards of wealthy homes' and is then in 'a well fit young / boys room with a fine desk, and / bound books on the shelves.'

The prose moves in quick film cuts from party to the pounding at the door and the rush out. The escape route runs through wealthy yards into a comfortable boy's room of books and a desk, setting the gang's basement against a world of study and money. The page breaks off on 'Now', leaving the next scene to the following sheet.