CHAPTER XII.

“The Lottery Alphabet”--“The Philosopher’s Stone”-- “Fortune’s Ladder”--Enigmatical handbill--Lottery drawn on St. Valentine’s Day--“Public Prizes”--and other poetical handbills 162

“Twenty Thousand; or, Tom Truelove’s Journal”--“London and the Lottery”--“The Persian Ambassador”--“An Enigma” --“Gently over the Stones” 180

“Master and Man”--“Altogether”--Dr. Thornton’s “Royal Botanical Lottery”--“Two Gold Finches”--“Dennis Brulgruddery”--“Shakespeare’s Seven Ages” 189

A lucky Spaniard--Miss Mitford’s prize--The _Spectator_ on lucky numbers--Other anecdotes on luck--“Gretna Green” --“A Prize for Poor Jack” 204

Beginning of the end of lotteries--Curious handbills 217

Protests against lotteries--Epitaph on Vansittart--“Three Royal Weddings”--More opposition to the lottery-- “Twelfth Night Character” handbills--Ditto of tradesmen 221

“A Dialogue”--“The Race of Fortune”--“The Wish”--Enigmatical handbill 245

Tomkins’s picture lottery--The lottery abolished--Handbills 252

The last lottery--Attempts to get up excitement--The procession--Alteration of date--Advertising car--“A Ballad, 1826”--Drawing of the last lottery 265