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• 1or hedges under water, many fish which are left on the
• 2hustler the eye across the bar. I'd no more than slippedhim
• 3people.Hymie paid me good money while I was with him,
• 4　　Everyone, bartenders and customers, sat or stood
• 5her arms, and laughed shrilly, insanely. Then she turned
• 6it washis money that she gave me, I guess, because she
• 7　　Anyway, to kill time, Sammy and I sniffed some of
• 8hoodlums to go huntingfor the hold-up man. And the man's
• 9in an iron sluice gate. The Eurasian had passed it, but
• 10I had thrown my gun away had kept them from taking me to
• 11　　Anyway, I just never went back to the madam's job.
• 12Long Island bootleg. Most ordinary whisky drinkers are
• 13Max realized that he must lower his head if he would follow.
• 14a brand couldn't tell their only brand from pureweek-old
• 15　　In turn, I knew he would be protecting his stature
• 16Nicholas Avenue. But my ears were hearing a gun. Ididn't
• 17big farm, evidently finding in the society of this rougher
• 18I hadn't combinated the number I'd claimed, but another.
• 19into. For a hustler in our sidewalk jungleworld, face
• 20　　_Homeboy!_I jerked around; I came close to shooting.
• 21On went the Eurasian, up to her waist in the flood, with
• 22　　He said, Take your hand out of your pocket, Red-_real_
• 23best S.L.A. contacts. The black manager hired some Negro
• 24older hustlers, then put it on the wire for everyone to
• 25his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
• 26　　This was the trip to Michigan in the wintertime when
• 27for the people. He called me foul names,threatened me.
• 28the code, if West Indian Archie had gone out ofthe door,
• 29first time that he had been surprised there he apologized
• 30beyond West Indian Archie's deadline. Late, Iwent back
• 31wasn't the problem. I still had about two hundreddollars
• 32　　At first, I slept a lot-even at night. I had slept
• 33was the especial pride and joy of My Dear and Meriem. The
• 34　　I didn't put up any objections to leaving. Shorty
• 35of my main hangouts, the bar of the La Marr-Cheri on the
• 36　　Since I had known him, he had had several. He had
• 37rising, was gradually flooding the cave of the dragon.
• 38　　Everyone in the bar-all over Harlem, in fact-was
• 39carefully.I did. Once he saw me empty handed, we both
• 40anyone,but no one who knew me, including myself, would
• 41Into the disc of light, leaped, fantastic, the witch figure
• 42his mother and his grandmother, too, but one thing she
• 43not be right. Had I really gotten mycombination confused?
• 44older hustlers, then put it on the wire for everyone to
• 45that belief he had made no effort to find her after his
• 46most vicious things in an effort to hurt him, andtalk about
• 47in which one took the Dead On Arrival ride tothe morgue,
• 48hype younger ones. I knew he wouldn't do it as some would,
• 49and he pulled up short, for, instinctively, he knew that
• 50to see my brother Philbertin Michigan. I gave Sammy the