hold-up is yours, and you do not have to divide with politicians,
and if you refuse to divide they squeal on you, and you see the
guide board pointing to Joliet. I would not go back to the wicked
life of an alderman, to make a dishonest living by holding up
bills until the agent came around and gave me an envelope, but I
do want to hear from my old pals in the common council, and I
would ask our corpulent friend, who so ably picked the buckshot
out of my remains, when he passes through Chicago to go to the
council chamber and give my benediction to my colleagues, and ask
them to repent before it is too late, and come west and go into
legitimate robbery, far away from the sleuths who are constantly
on their trails. While the lamp continues to burn the vilest
alderman may buy a ticket to the free and healthy west, and we
will give him a welcome. Old man, shake," and Buckskin Bill shook
pa's hand and sat down on his knees, because his wounds were not
healed.

The leader of the gang then called upon Pa for a few remarks, and
Pa said: "Gentlemen, you have done me great honor to make me an
honorary member of your organization, and I shall go away from
here with a feeling that you are the highest type of robbers,
men that it is a pleasure to know, and that you are not
to be mentioned in the same category of the wicked men who rob the
poor right and left, in what we consider civilization in the east.
You only take toll from the great corporations who have plenty,
and your robberies do not bring sorrow and sadness to the poor and
hungry. No matter what inducements may be held out to me in the
future, to join the life insurance robbers, the political robbers,
the great corporations that wring the last dollar from their
victims, I shall always remember, in declining such overtures,