ave no viable alternative. Burglary is a learned trade just like pick pocketing. He tells the prisoners, "While you would not have the least thing against me in the world you might pick my pockets," and, "You would not have anything against me, but that's your profession." Darrow is saying that a trade, whether viewed as criminal or not, is a mode of survival. The last example he gives is of women who seamstresses by day, are forced into prostitution b
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