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Readers who love quick, funny voices, short tales with a neat turn at the end, and old New York in all its variety. Fans of tender comedy and warm-hearted fixers will find a friend in Shorty.
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Picture yourself at a shop window on Fifth Avenue, staring at a heliotrope hat the size of a summerhouse. A small man in an old ulster steps up and asks what it costs. Then he asks you to come inside, because he is too shy to face the saleswomen alone.
That is how Odd Numbers begins. Sewell Ford wrote these nineteen tales as further chronicles of Shorty McCabe, a former prizefighter who runs a physical culture studio on 42nd Street. Shorty tells every story himself, in quick New York slang. You get a whole city, and a narrator who hides a soft heart behind a joke.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A stranger needs help buying a hatFree
- 2Strangers arrive and nobody stays a joke
- 3Families and fortunes can hide a good joke
- 4Courting couples and Cousin Cornelia
- 5Two odd men and what they will not do
- 6A man called Marmaduke and a hired goat
- 7Secrets, soup and a sensible cure
- 8False cures, true needs and a lady with a list
- 9Two schemers who bet on themselves
- 10An old aunt, a blind farmer and the voice that holds it all
Point clé 1 sur 10
A stranger needs help buying a hat
Shorty McCabe is strolling up Fifth Avenue when he stops at a milliner's window and meets a huge heliotrope hat wrapped in purple gauze. A short, wrinkled man in an old ulster steps up beside him and asks what he thinks the price might be.
The man is Goliah Daggett, from South Forks, Iowa. He wants the hat for his wife, but he is too shy to walk into a shop full of women alone. He would like a manicurist in his hotel barbershop to try it on first, because she looks like his wife might have looked years ago. Shorty sees a crank, yet he notices the twinkle in those small gray eyes.
As they walk, Daggett tells of his wife, Marthy, and the stylish hats she wanted but never got. He was always too busy buying reapers and crop options. The shop talk turns into something else, and Shorty stops making jokes.
A person's odd habit often hides a reason worth hearing.
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What is Odd Numbers by Sewell Ford about?
It is a collection of nineteen comic tales told by Shorty McCabe, a former boxer who runs a physical culture studio in New York. Each tale brings in an odd character and shows Shorty helping out in his own way.
Who is Shorty McCabe?
Shorty is a retired prizefighter and the narrator of every chapter. He runs a gym on 42nd Street, speaks in quick slang, and is married to Sadie. He looks tough but has a soft heart for people in trouble.
Is Odd Numbers a true story?
No, the tales are fiction, written about a century ago. They draw on real New York settings such as Fifth Avenue, Broadway hotels, tenements, roadhouses and yacht clubs, which gives the humor its flavor of everyday city life.
Is Odd Numbers easy to read?
Yes, the stories are short and self-contained, so you can start at any chapter. Shorty speaks in lively, plain dialogue, and the jokes and quick scenes keep each tale easy to follow.
What is the main message of Odd Numbers?
The main message is that people who seem strange or foolish usually have good reasons, and a little attention can help them. The book also shows that money and manners do not decide who is kind.
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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}
}
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