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Title: Odd Numbers
Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe

Author: Sewell Ford

Release Date: September 4, 2008 [eBook #26528]

Language: English

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ODD NUMBERS

Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe

by

SEWELL FORD

Author of
Trying Out Torchy, Etc.

Illustrations by F. Vaux Wilson

[Illustration: "'SISTERS? DO WE LOOK IT?' SAYS MAISIE"]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, by Sewell Ford
Copyright, 1912, by Edward J. Clode

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Goliah and the Purple Lid 1
II. How Maizie Came Through 17
III. Where Spotty Fitted In 35
IV. A Grandmother Who Got Going 50
V. A Long Shot on DeLancey 67
VI. Playing Harold Both Ways 84
VII. Cornelia Shows Some Class 100
VIII. Doping Out an Odd One 116
IX. Handing Bobby a Blank 134
X. Marmaduke Slips One Over 151
XI. A Look In on the Goat Game 167
XII. Mrs. Truckles' Broad Jump 183
XIII. Heiney Takes the Gloom Cure 199
XIV. A Try-Out for Toodleism 214
XV. The Case of the Tiscotts 230
XVI. Classing Tutwater Right 246
XVII. How Hermy Put It Over 262
XVIII. Joy Riding with Aunty 279
XIX. Turning a Trick for Beany 294

ODD NUMBERS

CHAPTER I

GOLIAH AND THE PURPLE LID

One of my highbrow reg'lars at the Physical Culture Studio, a gent that
mixes up in cha