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Updated: October 14, 2026
"Come forward, then, my man," said Walter; "and pray, may I ask your name?" "Oh," said the man addressed, with a laugh, "every one knows my name Jim Jarrocks they calls me." "Well, Jim, here's your sovereign, and you've fairly won it." "Thank'ee, sir," said Jim; "and so has Will Gittins here, if I'm not mistaken." "How do you mean?" asked Saunders; "the sovereign was offered to the best man."
"Them's not the terms of the advertisement," said Jim, taking the newspaper out of his pocket. "Here it is: `I promise to give one sovereign to any man who shall beat me in a mile race, a high jump, and firing at a mark. Now, I've done it and won my sovereign, and Will Gittins has done it and won his sovereign too." It was even so. Two had fairly won the prize.