Mr. Punch's Book of Sport 49 – Anonymous · Verses Across
Literature · Humor
Mr. Punch's Book of Sport 49Maxim for the Derby Day
18
Literature · Humor
Mr. Punch's Book of Sport 49
Maxim for the Derby Day
AnonymousEnglish
There's many a slip
'Twixt the race and the tip.
"LAST, BUT NOT LEAST"
"Why do you call him a good jockey! He never rides a winner." "That just proves it. He can finish last on the best horse in the race!"
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR GIRLS?
(Why not give them a few lessons in the science of book-making?)
Mr. Professor. "And now, ladies, having closed our book on the favourite, and the betting being seven to three bar one, I will show you how to work out the odds against the double event."]
