I knew a Black Jack McCandless, called that because of his hair color, I always supposed. Very black hair, light skin. He was a contractor for earth moving projects: road building & the like.

I suppose it could have been for his personality. He once knifed a man who woke him up suddenly, but the knifee didn't prefer charges; he said he should have known better. I heard that B.Jack's wife always woke him up from a distance with a broom. Don't know if it's true or not.

There's Gypsies around here all right; Jimmy Marks, who claims to be the leader of the local Gypsies, has put a curse on the city of Spokane.

clint