STREET NOISES AND GAMES
Our "fleet" of rooms is the noisiest place in town. And that is
saying something. One night long after midnight I sat at one of
these windows in my sleeping outfit looking at the crowd (yes, a
crowd), thinking and trying to count the different noises. I was
also thinking about my creditors, and how I was now getting
closer and closer to them, and sooner or later, I'd have to face
them. Well, what I have remaining in money value is getting
pretty low. As to the noises, I got up to 14 but there are lots
more than that. The honks, street cars and newsboys drown out the
culls and low grade noises.
As Aura May has disappeared more and more from her father's side,
he has ventured more and more in the marts of trade and commerce.
About the first venture here was into the banana situation. I had
seen push carts of fruit everywhere. Close observation, at a
discreet distance, disclosed customers bought, peeled and ate the
fruit and then dropped the peels in a receptacle on the cart. I
could do that. I did.
Lightning calculation disclosed I was paying about two cents
American each for the biggest ones. A young Indian had preceded
me. I offered him one. He accepted.
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