author puts an old hat [ pronounced- ole at] out to collect pennies from readers

author puts an old hat [ pronounced- ole at] out to collect pennies from readers

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

Money, money, money; my it certainly is expensive to get by these days. One by one my bad habits and vices have become unaffordable.

An acquaintance of author suggests that author solicits donations from readers in case the insatiable urge to write subsides before chance alone produces something desirable to read by author's miniscule Public audience.

Here is something  I wrote before about money, money, money. In the story the union plumber carries an umbrella [ or walking stick] "like the well to do often do on Park Avenue" when " putting on the Ritz." Union plumber symbolizes money.

For us all prosperity is always just around the next corner; been on Park Avenue or to the Ritz lately?

PS- author is not soliciting funds at this time.

A union Plumber comes to Harlem

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

It's not raining and he's carrying an umbrella and it's not cold and he's wearing a gray silk scarf. It's not the 1940's and he's talking about count Basie and it's not Saturday night and he wants to hear swing music. A union plumber comes to Harlem.

Grandma wanted a white man to fix the problem with the pipes.

It's the same each time. Southern cooking is the best, they ate it as a boy. Langston Hughes is a significant writer and Duke Ellington is a consummate artist.

Southern cooking killed Grandpa of heart attack and we just want to get our pipes fixed at a reasonable cost.

It's not raining and he's carrying an umbrella and it's not cold and he's wearing a gray silk scarf. A union plumber comes to Harlem.
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" ole at" for old hat is from Long John Baldry " don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll"

" putting on the Ritz" by Irving Berlin 1927