forty-to-one

Updated: May 15, 2025

And it's all about what Rupert, Junior, would do if he seen a big tiger in some woods Rupert betting he'd shoot it dead, right between the eyes, and Margery taking the other end. She has by far the best end of it, I think, it being at least a forty-to-one shot that Rupert, the boy scout, is talking high and wide. And I drop into the Crimes again at a good, murderous place with stilettos.

Harry Leon Wilson - Somewhere in Red Gap