| I guess I can tell a gentleman from a con man or a flimflammer when I meet him. |
| A notorious flimflammer among traveling salesmen, he presents himself as a professor of musicology, organizing brass bands wherever he goes, but he doesn't have a clue about playing, much less reading, music. |
| Apprenticing himself to Johnnie Gold, a Chinese con man and fight trainer, McCoy finds his future: he will be both a flimflammer and a boxer, a faker and the genuine article. |
