lucre: money; profit

Jimmy dreamed of one day becoming a gangster. He'd seen all the big films. Well, at least the bits his mum and dad would let him watch. He knew all the things to say, to women, to men, to your cat. Not many gangsters had cats, but Jimmy did. He called him FatCat. That would make up for him being a cat, and not a violin case, Jimmy thought. Jimmy had wanted a violin case, and his mum had let him borrow a friend's. She was horrified to find Jimmy had taken the violin out and left it in the garden, in the rain. Jimmy didn't understand why she was so upset. There wasn't much lucre to being a violinist; a gangster on the other hand...