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About 4 h 40 min to read.Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who like a chatty narrator, old New York slang and short tales with a human heart, and for anyone who enjoys meeting eccentrics one story at a time.
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What would you do if a shy stranger on Fifth Avenue asked you to help him choose a hat? Odd Numbers, by Sewell Ford, gathers nineteen tales told by Shorty McCabe, a New York boxing and fitness teacher with a quick tongue and a soft heart. Each tale brings him an odd character from the street, the club or the country. You get laughs, rescues and small surprises. First comes a farmer from Iowa with a purple hat on his mind.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A Stranger Needs Help Buying a HatFree
- 2Newcomers Arrive and Bend the City
- 3Old Mothers and New Ways
- 4Young Lovers and a Gloomy Cousin
- 5Talent Found in Odd Places
- 6Marmaduke and the Man Who Needs Work
- 7Secrets and Cures in Respectable Houses
- 8Charity, Schemes and a Singing Gamble
- 9Family Jokes, Blind Luck and How It Is Told
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A Stranger Needs Help Buying a Hat
The book opens with a man from out of town who needs a favor. Goliah Daggett, a wheat farmer from South Forks, Iowa, stops Shorty at a hat shop window on Fifth Avenue. He wants a giant heliotrope hat, and he is too shy to walk in alone.
As they stroll, Daggett shares a plan. He wants a manicurist from his hotel, who looks like his wife might have looked years ago, to try the hat on. Shorty listens as this unusual stranger draws him into his errand.
The scene sets the pattern for the whole book. Shorty starts out joking and ends up helping. A comic errand carries real feeling, and the later tales do the same.
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About 4 h 40 min to read.Questions about Ungerade Zahlen: Weitere Chroniken von Shorty McCabe
What is Odd Numbers by Sewell Ford about?
It collects nineteen short stories told by Shorty McCabe, a New York boxing teacher. Each story brings him a new odd character, from an Iowa farmer to a poet boy, and he usually ends up lending a hand.
Who is Shorty McCabe?
Shorty is the narrator, a physical culture teacher with a studio on 42nd Street. He is quick with jokes and slang, married to Sadie, and softhearted beneath the wisecracks.
Is Odd Numbers a novel or a story collection?
It is a collection of linked tales, each with its own cast and plot. The same friends, such as Sadie, Pinckney and Swifty Joe, turn up again, so you can read the chapters in any order.
Is Odd Numbers easy to read?
The chapters are short and told in a chatty voice, like a friend talking.
When was Odd Numbers written and what is its main message?
Sewell Ford wrote it in the early 1900s as part of his Shorty McCabe series. Its main idea is that odd people are worth knowing, and that a little kindness and nerve can change a day.
Cite this edition
Ford, Sewell. Odd Numbers: Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/odd-numbers-being-further-chronicles-of-shorty-mccabe.
Ford, S. (2026). Odd numbers: Being further chronicles of Shorty McCabe. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/odd-numbers-being-further-chronicles-of-shorty-mccabe (Original work published 1909)
Ford, Sewell. Odd Numbers: Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/odd-numbers-being-further-chronicles-of-shorty-mccabe.
@book{ford2026odd,
author = {Ford, Sewell},
title = {Odd Numbers: Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/odd-numbers-being-further-chronicles-of-shorty-mccabe},
note = {First published 1909}
}