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The last section I want to do,
is Billy Peoples recounting

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of what he did on a Saturday,
more or less Saturday morning

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and what he did early
in Saturday evening.

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George and Sidney are mentioned
in the beginning of this

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very briefly.

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"So when George he cut out
on me, I goes over to Sidney

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and see if he wants to
go down to the bar light

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and shoot some pool.

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But Sidney sisters
she come to the door

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and she stand there blocking
it, and she won't even

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let me talk to the captain.

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She say, Sidney he
working on the books

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and he going to be at it
for like the whole day.

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I tell her, I just want
to be speaking with him

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for like a minute or two.

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And she say, he's working
too hard even for that.

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What I think in dogs, I think
in Sidney he jiving everybody

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and he probably sitting
back in some small room high

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as you please.

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Then that woman she put
her hand on her hip light

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and she say to me that
Sidney he going to be himself

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a fireman and so what am
I going to make of myself.

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So I say to her, even Sidney
he may get all the way

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to being a fireman.

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I go around and I make
his first fire for him

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and then I cut quickly.

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So I ends up going down
to the bar like loan

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and they only a
few cats in there.

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Half of them is still sailing
long from the night before

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and half was just
starting to get going

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for the rest of the weekend.

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I gets me a beer
and goes to the back

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where two cats in
a shooting pool.

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And right away, I see
that one of the cats

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is the man I used to work
the jewelry stores with.

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He seen me and he put up his
cue and he came over to me.

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Baby he say, where
have you been?

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Around, I tell him.

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You're still in business?

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He said.

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No, I tell him.

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I got me a job.

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And then when you
start to laugh at me.

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And when he get together
he asked me what job I got?

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And when I tell him,
I specimen supervisor.

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He say it sounds to him like
I had a cat who going places,

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all right.

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I tell him he got
the idea and then

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he put his arm
around my shoulder

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and he walked me to the
bar and buy me a few shots.

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And when we get to talking
he say to me, Billy baby,

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you're the best cat
I ever worked with.

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How many others you work with?

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I asked.

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Six, seven, he said.

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But we only made it once.

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It ain't like it was when you
didn't have no straight job,

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but I don't take his lead man
and I tell him getting out

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of the business.

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Sure baby, he said.

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A cat is smart to get out
when he can't do it no more.

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What you mean with
can't do it no more?

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I say to him.

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I could walk me into a store
and talk her cat into a corner

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so fast man, he'd never
know what hit him.

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That when he told me,
that what he like to hear.

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And then he say, he know just
the place over on Lenox Avenue.

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He say they a cat
over there, who

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got himself a whole mess
of watches in an open case.

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And all he need me to do is talk
to men outside of the store.

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I tell him again that I
ain't in the business,

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but he ain't taking
no for an answer.

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And after he buy me
a few more shots,

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we take off for the store.

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Now, working in store
dogs very simple thing.

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I goes in and starts to look
around for a few minutes

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and then it takes me out
my role and counts it,

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told a man can get
himself an eyeful.

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And then I goes to
the front window

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and starts to look
over what he got there.

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Then I counts my money and
starts with the door that when

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the cat he bite, all right.

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He say something
like need some help.

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And of course he's seen my
bread, so he no I don't--

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so he no I want to buy
something and I ain't

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going to rob him or nothing.

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Yeah, I say to the men.

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There's some ring way
over in the corner there

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and I can't make
it out from here.

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And when I opens the door and
goes outside to have a look,

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he followed me like maybe
he on a string I pull him.

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Well, in my job to
keep the cat out

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there for like a minute
or two, while my man

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he slipped himself in there
and put as much in his pockets

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as he can carry.

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When he cut out
and I see he clear,

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I just says to the
cat Thanks man,

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but I got to be getting along.

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The whole thing it
worked only if I

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good at keeping
the man to myself

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and are very good
at that, all right.

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Well, I meet my
man back at the bar

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and he counting
over the watches,

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and I see that he hit the
man for about 20 good watches

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and like six, eight are the
ones that don't bring nothing.

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He count out about ten
of the good ones for me

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and he told me they
may be bring me like,

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a couple hundred dollars.

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But I tell him I
don't want them and he

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said to me like, I'm
making a big mistake not

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being in the business no more.

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So he took them watches and
he put them back in his jacket

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and he cut out.

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So what the hell am I going
to do with ten watches anyway?

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Another lab in all
clean up and I was just

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thinking in there what I'd
done on Saturday night.

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I don't think I could
tell no one what

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I've done Saturday night?

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If and I did and if-- and they'd
be thinking I dig that boob,

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they like to laugh me
right off the street.

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So that day to find warm day
for November and the sky it

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all clearing the air
it feel good to me.

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And long about 5:00 or 5:30, I
gets me a couple of six packs

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and that goes up to the
roof of the building

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and sits me down
in the corner like

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and I don't do nothing
for a long time,

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except watch the sky get dark.

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And I sees the stars
come out and then

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the moon had come up
over the buildings.

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And it just hang
there for a while,

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all yellow and it's a pretty
sight dogs, pretty sight.

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Every now and again I goes up
there, nobody he know about it.

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And I don't do nothing
important up there

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like maybe think big
things is going to happen

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to me, that a lot of boo.

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I just watches things get
themselves set for the night.

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And when the sky ain't got
nothing left in it to watch,

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I looks over the
edge and I watch what

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the peoples in the street
they do in wood the evening.

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I've seen me lots of things
from up their dogs, everything

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from a couple of stick ups
in the street to a time

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where in one apartment
across the way,

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I see two cats
kissing each other.

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But went up there it
don't matter to me what

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the people's they be doing, seem
to me that they can be doing

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whatever it is they
feels like doing

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and it ain't no
business of mine.

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Sometimes when I up there, I get
to thinking about cats in here,

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I'm about to school.

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And I make sure one
thing when I up there, I

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don't never decide nothing
for myself when I up there.

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I try that a couple
of times and I

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think I got everything
figured out.

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And when I come down
from the roof, things

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they ain't the way I imagined
them when I up there.

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After that happened
a couple of times,

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I cut out deciding things for
myself when I on the roof.

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All I do now is just sit around
and watch the people doing

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what they feel is like, I tell
you things they work themselves

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out that way."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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