Butch Minds the Baby

An ex-convict who is an expert safecracker at first declines to "go on a job" because he is baby-sitting his infant son, but then decides to bring him along. After the successful robbery, police officers questioning the man dismiss the possibility of a safecracker with a baby in his arms., An ex-convict who is an expert safecracker declines to go on a job because he is babysitting his infant son. He reconsiders and brings the baby along. After a successful robbery, police officers questioning the man dismiss the possibility of a robber with babe in arms. Set in Manhattan in the summer of 1931, this humorous story is told in Runyon's inimitable laconic style.
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, An ex-convict who is an expert safecracker declines to go on a job because he is babysitting his infant son. He reconsiders and brings the baby along. After a successful robbery, police officers questioning the man dismiss the possibility of a robber with babe in arms. Set in Manhattan in the summer of 1931, this humorous story is told in Runyon's inimitable laconic style.
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