THE
EXPLOITS
OF THE ULTRA-HARRIERS
Lucky talks back to Harry
Chapter 3
Like I said, we were at this restaurant in Philadelphia,
2aAnd we had a private upstairs room all to ourselves,
3Because there were a bunch of us,
4bIncluding Joe, and Sam, and Tom, and Mort, and Tony, and Ned, and Ira, and Jerry, and Fred, and Vinnie, and Lucky.
5And it was cLucky who first started talking back to Harry,
6On the phone,
7Saying, d“Why should we hit the road and take up a lot of our precious time doing stuff for you,
8e“When we could go do whatever we felt like doing instead,
9“Whenever we felt like it?”
10And when Lucky had said these things, Harry asked to talk to each of us,
11In turn,
12And we all told him pretty much the same thing,
13Which was that it had been great knowing him,
14And we really enjoyed all those fgreat times on the Learjet,
15Not to mention Malibu and Miami and Acapulco and so forth,
16hBut it was time to move on,
17Because iSam was going to law school,
18And jTom was going to medical school,
19And kVinnie was going to start a rock and roll band,
20And lMort wanted to be a network anchorman,
21And mNed was going to be a big-time corporate executive,
22And nJerry was going into politics,
23And oIra wanted to make blockbuster movies,
24And pTony had it all worked out how he was going to be a college professor,
25And qJoe had this driving ambition to be an evangelist,
26And I, rWillie, was planning to be a writer,
27And sLucky had some plans, although he didn’t talk about them much,
28And only tFred didn’t have any idea at all what he wanted to do, except that he was sick and tired of being on the road,
29Which meant that nobody was willing to do any running around for Harry,
30And besides, what did he care anyway,
31uBeing so nicely set up for life in Rio,
32vWhere the girls wear those amazing bathing suits that are hardly there at all?
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