Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-05-18

strict integrity, bv the tempting inducements
held out by these lotteries. Don't you re-
remember you promised me, not long ago.
that you would never REX any more in tn Sc
fraudulent c)nceIns2 | should think. too,
that your experience in that business was
sufficient t. steel your heart against them all.
You know the manner IN which they are
conducted, and that a prize scarce ever leaves
the firm who own the lottery They are
nothing more or less than fraud or an
imposition, where the community is annu ally
robbed OF many thousands Of dollars. You
have purchased ticket after ticket, and pack
age after package, and what have you real
lied from it? Why, sir. nothing, aside from
an empty purse and burning anxiety to try
again. only to lose more. II you have pur-
chased another ticket, whether you draw
prze or another blank, let it be the last
| one. llearken to the advice Of a sister, and
yOu will never Eli a suicide : grave.
"St. Peter, St. John, ST. Michael, and St.
| Dominic, deliver me from being obliged to
| swallow all the orthodox morality that YOU
can reach but tits Is quite immaterial, as
my determination is concluded, and it IRE
! ciseiy corresponds with your advice. should
not have purchased this last chance had !
| not been confident Of securing a prize. In
deed, am 50 sure Of it that i would not sell
/ my chance for thousand pounds, which
amount y d Harris offered me yesterday
$50 YOU choose to make him your conf
dant rather than your sister
"Ia ha 'Melia, wonder if YOU think
/ | could trust YOU with a secret of mine, with
any degree Of certainty that you would re-
tain it? | never yet came in contact with a
woman who could keep a secret in any other
way than to keep it a-going."
"HOw provoking You are this morning
! Now tnat YOU have taken Il chance in lot
! terry, please inf I'm me when YOU expect to
receive prize.
"As You haven asked me lc1ich particu-
/ lar lottery have procured the chance in, |
/ viii tell YOU something as to the time Of its
! being drawn. | think in about a month
J That shall get prize, rest assured bqt |
must now fulfil an engagement previously
made. -
Saying which he sprang t. his fee. and
left the house
"What difident set Of beings these
/ brothers q, - musoG Amelia, after her broth
e, had quilted her presence. "No aoubt he
thinks my curios ty Is excited to the highest
! degree and by lis condnct be appears de
te-mined 70 keep it thJre; but l am not
foolish enough TO permit such a small matter
as the purchase OF a lottery tic iet "a mere
piece II Iapar-lnl as worthless as II is
small-to AZ tata DiV feelings par icla. No.
no; he may do as he has a M. 10. /
I shouldn't have sad a word about Ills oOks
! hadn't [ supposed something more radical Ia
! effect was in his head
"Well, well, she continued att.r a mo-
ments pause, 1T iugs have arrived at Il
pretty pass, when brother can't or ron
! trust his sister. In s.re | don't care any
thing about his chance, other than | wish
would lysa, Just because he casts such in>ln-
uatiOns upon the ladies. Talk about
woman 5 MT being able to keep 4 secret,
/ when he knows kept one for hun Il wlole
week ami when | did tell it. it was purely
/ accidental. But never mind, may vet be
/ the posSessor Of a secret that he would ike
/ to know, when l viii retlllate this conduct
! Of his"
After thus relieving herself Of her pent-up
/ thoughts, she seated herself before her plano,
and commenced drumming away just as
though she was going to drown her curiosity
! in "the concord uf''-oE- anything but
.ssweet sounds" Alas such was not the
/ case and the more she played the more ag-
1 itated She became Finding that music was
/ but poor antidote for a disturbed minds she
reclined on the sofa and began reading
Bleak House. - which possessed the ''SJv-
/ ervgn balm sought tJ:, because in less
| than ten minutes she WAS wandering IN the
| fairy realms OF dreamland.
Roland, in the meantime, sauntercd down
/ the street, and cal ed upon a certain young
| lady Of his acquaintance, to whom he had al
ready applied the endearing epithet of my
dear Sarah - and he might have changed 1t
"a little, with equal proprety, and read thus;
my iRtended"
4 pleasant hour or an hour very pleasant
! ly spent in her society, ,when he journeyed
on, down the sh .d0wy vale of life. viii
not deign to tell or even presume the nature
Of their conversation, being but a nou,e yet
| in such matters.
Time passed onward as rapidly as usual,
until a month had disappeared, when Roland
entered his sisters apartment, one evening,
and said in a meaning tone
There. sister, is the ticket OF which !
spoke, some time since.
On receiving it she hastily glanced at 1t.
and found it to be a wedding card.
"Oh, you cruel wretch, You ~ she ez-
claimed, in well affected astOulShment '' 70
thus fool me-
"Why, Sis, did not try to deceive You;
you tried to fool yourself
- don't know whether TO cOnstrue tins
as real, or another rHse Of yours Is 1t or is
it not u TUse?"
" | am perfectly honest in this ; the card
means Just what it says and now that you
have learned wh,ch lJttery | purchased the
chance in, will you tell me whether or no
YOU ceem my course and selection ludici-
Gus one, taking into consideration the tact
that | was so sure of getting prize.
YES, with all sincerity, can say, IN
biblical language Thou hast done well,
for a better girl never smiled over cook
stove than Sarah Kayton. While | dis
approve Of your having kept all knowledge
OF your coursthip from me, | must say that
you have made good selection
." So YOU have relented in measure, and
don't cherish such feelings of animOsity a.
gainst all lotteries p
No. not a particle When | made that
remark, had direct reference to money
lotteries, and never even thought Of what the
old pcet SAID when he sung, Marriage IN a
lottery No, no, brother; | entertain the
same opinion Of money lotteries now that
, did then
"Wen, 1 concur with you, and shall al
ways remember that sage advice you gave
me"
4 month afterward, if you had entered a
pleasant vinesclad dwelling on -- street,
IN the village of ", you might have
been witness to a practical demonstration
o." f"loye in a cottage"
There dwelt Roland and Sarah, as con
> tented and as happy as two earthly mortal;
possibly can be.
. Although many years have since passed
i and reverses have crossed his threshold, ye
o he has never had occlslon to regret the pro
o curing OF his last "L9HerV Iick9, nor th'