Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn t even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing a tin horn and collecting stuff people didn t want. Then one day, the junk wagon passed a pawn shop with a gleaming brass trumpet in the window. . . .

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