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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 taken. The night passes with 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 busted 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 lit young boy's room with a fine desk, and bound books on the shelves. Now

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Beer, petting, panic, and flight turn adolescent bragging into a police raid and sudden class crossing.

The page is good at showing how fast a night can change register. What begins as bragging and play becomes terror at the door, then shifts again into a pursuit through the back yards of wealthy homes, where social borders become physical terrain.

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The apartment night turns to raid and class crossing. 'Bragging about the scoring of the machine', an 'icebox filled with beer', a night of 'drunkeness and play, but... not sex other than petting', until 'loud pounding on the door... like thunder' announces police: 'the door is busted open, and the rush is on.' The escape is also a social ascent - 'the boy Jack Frost' crosses 'the back yards of wealthy homes' to surface in 'a well lit young boy's room with a fine desk, and bound books on the shelves', the delinquent landing in the world of privilege and learning.