Mr. Pryor. Yes, sir; he had always treated me good. I mean—as far as a friend, you know.
Mr. Hubert. I know, but I mean after you left his employ as a musician or an artist or entertainer, which I gather was around 1954 or something like that?
Mr. Pryor. Yes, sir.
Mr. Hubert. How did you continue to contact him, was it just social?
Mr. Pryor. Yes, sir; I had gone down to the Carousel Club.
Mr. Hubert. As a customer?
Mr. Pryor. As a guest, because as a customer, I would pay, but as a guest—whenever I came up, which was very rare, but at different times I had gone up to his club just to catch the floor show and to observe primarily the MC’s and listen to their routines. That was the type of work that I had done.
Mr. Hubert. In other words, during the 10 years after you stopped working for him, your connection and your contact with Ruby was on that sort of basis, irregular meetings now and then?
Mr. Pryor. Yes, sir; I believe it was in 1960 on Christmas Day, he came out to our house and he brought, I believe he had two dogs, dachshunds, that he was quite fond of, and he came out and ate Christmas dinner, although we had already finished dinner, he came out late, and my wife fixed him a plate and he had turkey and all the trimmings, and he stayed, oh, possibly 45 minutes and seemed to enjoy it, and his dogs—we had a lot of yard and his dogs got out and run and it just seemed to be relaxation for him, and we enjoyed having him, just as a friend like that.
Mr. Hubert. Is there anything else you want to say, Mr. Pryor?