As if I didn't know, as if every jailbird doesn't know the day and the very minute his release is due!
That--and a peculiar-sounding word which that strange little jailbird gave to me, on condition that I would never sell it, stating it was all he had and that it might be useful to me some day if I ever had the handling of horses.
I do know you by reputation for an escaped jailbird and a would-be blackmailer, who will be back where he belongs before he is much older.
You wouldn't feel so mighty bad about what I say, if you knew you had a ticket-of-leave jailbird for a partner.
The stranger halted with his jailbird companion some five or six feet away.
But the young jailbird quickly changed his mind, and turned to face them, an inquisitive look on his hard cunning face.
Neither had he become a jailbird in seeking to serve his own ends.
It is not mysterious, it is not even odd, that a jailbird should take his gun to Pilgrim's Pond.
There may have been some old jailbird called a King in the time of our grandmothers; but he belongs to history if not to fable.
It was a situation by no means new to the four walls of the Jailbird nor to the men concerned.
In front of the Jailbird the only light came from within and made scant war on the lurking darkness without.
It was far more likely that with a crowd of his own sort he was gambling in the card-room of the Last Chance saloon, the Jailbird saloon as "white" men called it.
In Mexico I got yuh, and to Mexico you went and got me a regular jailbirdthat Uncle Sammy wants.
And when they did finally turn him loose, Mary V would be ashamed of her jailbird sweetheart, and his airplane would be--where?
The Jailbird I Now it had come, he was not quite sure that he wanted it.
That jailbird hasn't been away from her long enough for her to be weaned from her foolishness about him.
We're taking no chances on 'em being jailbird hunters!
