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• 1Max crossed the threshold hard upon her heels. Three descending
• 2　　which hustlers-standing around, or playing at this
• 3I lived. Shorty's name was put down as recommending me.
• 4　　At seven o'clock, when the night ball-racker came
• 5out to be lignite of little value, in the sandstone (probably
• 6you shined shoes, I learned, you also kept watch on customers
• 7a new shoeshine boy what he could pick up on the side by
• 8thing I liked immediately about Shorty was his frankness.
• 9and go into permanent camp just beyond the great river
• 10afternoon Shorty didn't let it show in his face how country
• 11didn't workanywhere, completely entranced me. I couldn't
• 12bars-not slipping off to some darkcorner, as in Lansing.
• 13and not Spaniards and that they were in sad want of tobacco
• 14the crowd thronging in. The most glamorous-looking white
• 15　　_Showtime!_ people would start hollering about
• 16a moment, he kept schooling me. Shoelaces,this drawer
• 17composed. When we reached Lemuy we had much difficulty
• 18be shouting at the band; and it would bewailing, until
• 19and places, he remembered many, and pretty soon we sounded
• 20　　When I modeled the zoot for Ella, she took a long
• 21And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
• 22waste time! Freddie showed me how fast on my ownshoes.
• 23seemed to be doing fourthings at once. Here, you can take
• 24out for me, and went to a grocery store, where I got acan
• 25and he pulled up short, for, instinctively, he knew that
• 26　　Shorty soon decided that my hair was finally long
• 27afternoon, Shorty introduced me to players and loungers.
• 28natural selves and not putting on airs. Even though I did
• 29with stating that they were poor natives of the place,
• 30figured right I'd be quitting. I told Freddie what the
• 31know of no pool joints around here needinganybody. You
• 32like white men's hair; Ella told me this was called a conk.
• 33Morison had been urging his suit once more that evening,
• 34　　dance! Man, our people carry _on_! Whenever he had
• 35said Hi, Red, so that made me figure he wasfriendly.
• 36to work. I never had neither. Freddie got on the stand
• 37was the especial pride and joy of My Dear and Meriem. The
• 38got to go anywhere now? Well, stickaround until I get off.One
• 39That world of grocery stores, walk-up flats, cheap restaurants,
• 40the numbers. Well, you ain't never hadnothing to play
• 41solid wall opened before her; it was another masked door.
• 42and acouple of other places. But even before I came to
• 43Anyhow, he even introduced me to some of the other Basie
• 44in all kinds of styles, the men sharp intheir zoot suits
• 45often among the blooms beneath the great moon—the black-haired,
• 46me. Some hustles you're too new for. Cats will ask you
• 47showed-an' his head looked like abriar patch!But that
• 48satisfied the Negro dancers. But I know that Charlie Barnet's
• 49of three-halfpence, two fowls, one of which, the Indian
• 50to remember is that everything inthe world is a hustle.