Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-19

vlctlon that the number would prove
lucky one. Whereupon, setting her down
as silly goose, they bought another tick
ct; but No. 10000, as it happened, did
urn up prize Of 100000
An odd incident was connected with
lottery ticket early in the present century
Baron D'Aguilar was requested by
friend to purchase for him No. 14,060,
which he felt certain would prove lucky
one. The baron could not fulfil the COM
mission, for he found that this particular
number was already sold. The number
came up prize of 100000 So far
there was vexation for Baron D'Aguilars
friend On the other hand, the lucky
winner IA draper in Cornhil) remained
long time without his money, owing to a
blunder Of his own he had bought ten
tickets, and had entered their numbers in
notebook as a memorandum but he
wrote 14,669 instead of 14,06S, and re-
mained long ignorant of the fact that that
ticket had proved lucky one.
The owner of White Conduit House,
some sixty or seventy years ago, lost his
Meeting a friend one day, he said he had
a presentment that particular number
would be great prize money was lent
to him to buy; it came up prize he
squandered the treasure, and died beg
gar. A man, and his cousin, a married
woman, dubbed their small meaas to buy
a sixteenth of lottery ticket; she went
to the office to buy it, taking with her
little girl the girl, being asked to select
the number, fixed upon %, ,S24; she
could give no particular reason, but ad
hered to her choice-declaring that the
number would be a lucky one 1t came
up a prize of 10000 the man went and
received the due alIquot part, ,9625. Hav-
ing some peculiar notions about the prop
erty or non-property of married women,
he pocketed all the money; but the law
afterwards compelled him to share it with
her. Charles Lamb tells story of gen
tleman who had purchased No. l,069 :;
passing lottery office, he saw placard
announcing that that number had come up
a f20,000 prize he walked round St.
Paul's to cool his agitation before entering
the office; on going back again, he found
that he had mistaken 10,069 for 1869.
The law had frequently to decide cases
about lucky numbers. \ lady dust be-
fore the abolition of lotteries in 1926
wished to purchase the number of the year
in which she was born, 1892 finding this
was sold, she bought one differing from it
by 0 only, namely, 1902. She was in
the hall when, as she declared, No 1902
Was audibly announced as a 100000
prize and she brought an action for the
money; but it was proved that her ears or
imagination must have deceived her. In
another case, one Mr.. M'Kellar owed some
kindness to his friend, Mr. Bellamy. He
bought a quarter OF ticket, and said that
BeIlamY should have half the proceeds, if
it turned up prize. This was done twice
over, but both tickets were blanks, Bella
my's daughter then dreamed that No. 5
would be a 100000 prize; this number
was not to be had but " Something told
Bellamy to multiply his daughters number
by itself, and add , to it." This made q.
No. y was bought, and it was drawn a
100000 prize. M'KeIIar declared that
he had not repeated his promise after the
second failure, and lawsuit was maintain
ed to decide this point. Belamy als1
claimed an additional percentage q" for the
ingenuity of his guess about No, a.
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