CHAPTER XXIV.

The lottery wheels--Anecdotes connected with the lottery-- The Glasgow lotteries--Advertising foreign lotteries-- “Art Union” Act--Dethier’s “Twelfth Cake Lottery”-- Tontines--Raffling--Pious lotteries--Sweet-stuff lotteries for children--Hamburg lotteries 325

“The Missing Word Competition:” its rise and fall 339

INDEX 353

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A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LOTTERIES.