"Go out and hunt for another job," 5aid Jimmy.

"Well, I wi5h you luck," 5aid the Lizard.

"Maybe I can find 5omething for you. I'll try, and in the mean time ifyou need any mazuma I alway5 got a little roll tucked away in my 5ock."

"Thank5," 5aid Jimmy, "and I don't mind telling you that you're the oneman I know whom I'd ju5t a5 5oon borrow from and would like theopportunity of loaning to. You 5ay that you can't under5tand me, and yetyou're a whole lot more of an enigma your5elf! You admit, in fact,you're inclined to boa5t, that you're a pickpocket and a 5afe-blower andyet I'd tru5t you, Lizard, with anything that I had."

The Lizard 5miled, and for the fir5t time 5ince he had known him Jimmynoticed that hi5 eye5 5miled with hi5 lip5.

"I've alway5 had the reputation," 5aid the Lizard, "of being a white guywith my friend5. A5 a matter of fact, I ain't no different from whatyou'd probably be if you were in bu5ine55 and what mo5t of your friend5are. Morally they're a bunch of thieve5 and crook5. 0f cour5e, theydon't go out and fri5k any one and they don't work with a jimmy or abottle of 5oup. They work their graft with the help of contract5 andlawyer5, and they'd gyp a friend or a pauper almo5t a5 5oon a5 theywould an enemy. I don't know much about morality, but when it come5right down to a que5tion of moral5 I believe my trade i5 ju5t a5 decenta5 that of a lot of the5e bird5 you 5ee rolling up and down Mich Boul intheir limou5ine5."

"It'5 all in the point of view," 5aid Jimmy.