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“No What happened to Eyes?”

“I don’t know”

“They said you ith him”

“Yeah So?”

“So what happened?”

Billy closed his eyes, andtrains”

“What do you mean, Billy?” Bell asked

“There’s good ht Good ot irl, and all of a sudden I couldn’t do ’ e his eyes look as mad as the tone of his voice “Got jobs once You know that?”

“No, I didn’t know that, Billy What sort of jobs?”

“Got jobs Sceneshifter in a theater Once I was a stableman I even worked as a dummy boy”

“What is a dummy boy?” Bell asked

“Railroad signalman Eleventh Avenue I rode a horse ahead of the train It’s the law in New York You can’t run a train on Eleventh Avenue without a guy on a horse Only tiave me a job I didn’t stick it”

He started coughing Consu

“Are you hungry, Billy?”

“Naw I don’t get hungry”