DERBY REFLECTIONS
... . Q By A. A. Milne. The approach of the Derby reminds me that Chance owes me a good deal one way and another. Mathematically I have as much right to win a sweepstake as anybody else; actually I never get my rights. It is not that I draw blanks. To draw a blank is no worse than to give a cabman half-a-sovereign instead of six- pence; it simply means that you have thrown away a small sumol money ...