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Thread #95480   Message #1858189
Posted By: GUEST,thurg
13-Oct-06 - 05:20 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Poor Boy/ Ninety-nine years
Subject: RE: Origins: Poor Boy/ Ninety-nine years
"The Boston Burglar gets twenty years (not twenty-one or ninety-nine)."

In the version collected by Helen Creighton in Nova Scotia, the Boston Burglar is "Sentenced down to twenty-ONE years in the penitentiary."