Straightway he goes down on his knees, does not recoil from hot dry skin, begins to tug one of a pair of
stained white socks around those death - puffed toes and nonchalantly smiles and says «fear not.»
The day before, on April 2, I had gone to a Goodwill store in the city of Orange and purchased a disguise, clothes that would have suited any bum wandering around nearby MacArthur Park or the broken - bottle district of downtown L.A.: a $ 5 pair of baggy brown pants, marked down to $ 2.50, whose cuffs scraped the floor; a large gold shirt for $ 3; a
white tie, with a bright yellow
stain, for 15 cents; a pair of brown shoes, which I wore without
socks or laces, for $ 5; and the ugliest sports coat in the store, a black number with red and
white flecks, for $ 2.50.
One great trick to
staining is to use a rubber glove over your hand, then an old used
white sock over the rubber glove; dip it into the
stain and rub it onto your wood.