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The camera in an instant of the shot goes from hand and gun over Animal's body to a sky, where there will most likely be only black, no stars, because of ob- vious city beaming bright lights. The scene shoots into O'Mahoney's Tavern catching the poet returning from his brief wonder to the beach, in his approach to the long table where gathered is the crowd; the Fox stands up with flushed face and turned up smiling mouth and gives this toast; well boys, here it is to a hard days work tomorrow. The camera comes from a bunch of whiskey shot glasses and follow- logs to the foxes mouth with the glass he has picked up. With this the mummy of the group, characterized as an old buddy of Earl Films says, "I think the Fox deserves a show on that one." With this there is a steady drowning boo by all, and the camera twirls up above the still raised whiskey glasses of the men ready to finished the toasting, to the lights of the bar, all the lights and what they produce in reflection upon the ceiling, and there is induced that dimness of colored light mingling in the smoke damp air, until they quickly spin themselves out into the same sort of black incurred upon the death bound by the lights the Animal was attempting to reach in order to escape from such actual death. At the beginning of the house scene, the Fox tells his men that anyone who feels that he is doing something wrong may and should leave; Big Al, or the large American, chooses to do so; and for the first time is seen a solemn face on the wise man winking, slowly away.