A topping bet on a baseball game puts Archie in the money.

But is the double or nothing option really the best way to go?

PG Woodhouse, today on the Classic Tales podcast. Thank you for listening.

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And now, Indiscretions of Archie,

Part 5 of 10 by P.G. Woodhouse.

Chapter 14. The Sad Case of Luni Biddle Archie was a simple soul, and as is the case with most simple souls,

gratitude came easily to him. He appreciated kind treatment, and when, on the following day,

Lucille returned to the hermitage, all smiles and affection, and made no further reference

to beauty's eyes and the flies that got into them, he was conscious of a keen desire to show

some solid recognition of this magnanimity. Few wives, he was aware, could have had the nobility

and whatnot to refrain from occasionally turning the

conversation in the direction of the above-mentioned topics. It had not needed this behavior on

her part to convince him that Lucille was a topper and a corker, and one of the very best, for he

had been cognizant of these facts since the first moment he had met her.

But what he did feel was that she deserved to be rewarded in no uncertain manner.

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