I've been lucky in that way, Colonel, because I don't care much about it, I suppose.

I don't think that I ever yet made a really bad investment.

Just look.

Two years ago, to oblige an old friend who was in the shop with me when I was young, I put 5,000 pounds into an Australian mine, never thinking to see it again.

Yesterday I sold that stock for 50,000 pounds." "Fifty thousand pounds!" ejaculated the Colonel, astonished into admiration.
"Yes, or to be accurate, 49,375 pounds, 3s., 10d., and--that's where the jar comes in--I don't care.