78 SPORTING STORIES 



to lock it up in the sideboard until it was a fortnight old, 

 and put back the crust if he could not finish it. These, 

 however, were only fads, for there was nothing of the miser 

 about him. Old " Short Odds " made a pot of money ; he 

 lived to fourscore, and only a few weeks before his death 

 was on Newmarket Heath as lively as ever. 



