Around New Orleans women sang blues, no men sang them.

available over at the internet archive, recommend the pdf scan as the epub hasn't been proofread and is pretty much unreadable

All the colored people all over thought everybody from New Orleans knew voodoo and could work great things for them, Bob and I bought ten cents' worth of incense and some envelopes, got a frog, a green rag, and a table and chair. We set up the table and chair on the corner with a bunch of envelopes with numbers in them. Bob wrapped the green rag around his head like a turban. We put a sign on the table. "Lucky Numbers" ... When somebody would want a lucky number, Bob would hold the frog and say some French. then let him jump on one of the envelopes. I'd burn a little incense under the envelope and we'd sell it to the guy for a quarter.