Place Your Bets

Whenever a Davidson goes to the woods, it's customary to place bets. Here's the line on Mom's trip to Fall Creek Falls.

• Higher/Lower bets (pay even money):

- Pages written: 100
- Tick bites: 4
- Episodes of diarrhea: 1
- Delicious meals: 0
- Short stories composed: 25
- Times Maribeth calls the Inn: 6
- Times Molly visits: 0

• Odds bets (pay based on calculated odds):

- Odds of leaving early: EVEN
- Odds of staying later: 500:1
- Odds of making a new friend: 3:1
- Odds of deciding to move the woods to become a full-time writer: 10:1
- Odds of learning how to make a fire with two sticks: 7500:1