CHAPTER VI.

Crowd at a lottery--Another State lottery, eighty-seven blanks to a prize--A ticket sold twice over--Extravagant prices paid for tickets--Praying for success--A lucky innkeeper--Lottery for Cox’s Museum--Adam’s Adelphi Lottery --Blue-coat boys and the lottery--Future arrangements for drawing 71

Counterfeiting lottery tickets--Curious lotteries--Suicide --Method of starting a State lottery--Lottery office-keepers to be licensed--Charles (or “Patch”) Price 86