What's the Odds?

Excerpt from What's the Odds?: Or, the Dumb Jockey of Jeddington Dear Smart, Who the "Major Jawley Sharp" - the supposed author of this novel - might have been, it is now impossible to ascertain. I would not for one moment identify myself with a person who was capable of deceiving a too confiding editor, as he appears to have deceived the Editor of "Punch" where this novel first appeared. My idea on the subject is - but I had better keep it to myself, as, after all, ideas arc scarce, and though there may be more where that came from, yet there may not be, and one must provide for such a contingency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.