"You want to know who stuck up that United Cigar store?" the wino asked. "Who?" Coffin Ed grated. "Me," the wino said jubilantly, and started laughing like hell.

A stool pigeon jokes about a stickup as the detectives question him.

— Coffin Ed in Harlem Cycle #4 - The Big Gold Dream (Chester Himes, 1959)

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