Hoagy Carmicahel on Muggles (was: The Stouffer case)

[Caius Marcius]

Reviewing the court decision, I saw that Louis Armstrong wrote a 
song in 1928 called Muggles. I tried to Google the lyrics to assess 
them for their filkability, but I found that Muggles is an 
instrumental piece. However, I did find this passage from Tin Pan 
Alley Master Hoagy Carmichael on one definition of Muggles I do not 
recall seeing before:


Here's what Hoagy Carmichael, later the writer of "Stardust" (and 
the other piano player in a Bogart film) wrote about experiencing 
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band as a college student visiting Chicago 
in 1923 with the young white cornetist Beiderbecke:

"Louis' wife, Lil, was playing piano and she could, too. There was a 
bass fiddle and clarinet, a regular jazz combo. As I sat down, I lit 
my first muggle [marijuana cigarette] as Louis and King Oliver broke 
into the introductory part of Bugle Call Rag. Everything was chaos 
at our table. We smoked and gulped our terrible drinks. Bix was on 
his feet, his eyes popping out of his head....The joint stank of 
body musk, bootleg booze, excited people, platform sweat. I couldn't 
see well but I was feeling all over, 'Why isn't everyone in the 
world here to hear this?' The muggles took effect, making my body 
feel as light as my Ma's biscuits. I ran over to the piano and 
played Royal Garden Blues with the band...I had never heard the tune 
before, but full of smoke, I somehow couldn't miss a note of it. The 
muggles had carried me into another world. I was floating high 
around the room in a whirlpool of jazz"

 = Carmichael, Sometimes I Wonder, p 101

    - CMC