Nevada County picayune., 1891-04-23

For the service rendered it was
not udbridled generosity on the part
of the giver, and the former had
some dim intimation of the fact, for
he added Gas if to enhance its value) +:
''It is just the price of a lottery
ticket. Buy one, my girl, and you
may win twenty thousand dollars. "
1t was the first time in his life that
the poor man allowed himself to be
SO liberal, SO the thought of it
haunted him for q long time; he
constantly wondered about the fate
of his bright silver piece. He often
asked the servant if she had yet
bought her lottery ticket.
mot yet, MASTER" was her un-
varying answer.
But at length she decided to end
this constant questioning by pacify-
ing him. SO one day she replied:
"Yes, master, have bought one. >"
Indeed! What number"
"Oh, the number is "a"
Every good !" said her master,
repeating the number to impress it
on his mind. BE careful not to
lose it -
Never fear, MASTER
because if you do fear sometime
to lose it"
The habits of daily life in the little
household, disturbed by these events,
soon settled INTO their regular course
eating sparely, very temperate
drinking, few hours for sleeping and
many for work.
Farmer Landry was almost con-
soled for his forced prodigality, when
one morning, in the barber shop,
where he went from time to time to
read gratis the Gazette, terrible
emotion shook him. He read the
result of the lottery drawing, and at
the head these words, like lines of
fire flashed before the dazzled spec
tacles of the good man:
"The number thirty-four has won
the great prize of 10000 francs. 3"
The old gentleman gave such sud-
den cry that the startled barber, in
turning towards him, almost clipped
n corner from the ear of the school
master, whom he was shaving.
Whats the matter, Father Lam
dry" he asked.
"Oh, nothing, nothing" answer
ed the farmer, who quickly recover
ed his calmness.
Rearranging his spectacles, he
read again slowly, spelling each syl-
liable to make assurance doqbly
sure, "
There was no mistake; the num-
Der "a, Brigitte's ticket, had won.
He dropped the journal and started
off in great agitation towards his
house. Brigitte had prepared her
masters frugal breakfast of nuts and
cheese, He placed himself at the Va
BILE, but he could not eat, for his
emotion seemed to clinch his throat
and prevent him from swallowing.
'What is the matter, master!'
anxiously asked Brigitte,
Nothing at all. "
"AQu are not illy''
mo, l tell you," he answered an
grily.
During several days he secretly
observed the poor woman. Did she
know that she had won loo, 900
francs2 No, indeed Entirely ig-
norant that she was the object OF
such close scrutiny, she performed
her daily tasks with her usual good
humor, while her master was in a
fever of unrest.
zane day he dared to ask her,
trembling while doing so:
is there any news, my good
girl?"
Nothing, master, except that one
OF the hens has s'the pip"
Very good She knew nothing
about her good fortune, As for an
nouncing it to her-that was entire
" too much for his nature and long
life habit. 1t seemed TO him mon
strous that another should profit by
this marvellous windfall of . hundred
thousand francs, produced by his
piece of twenty sous--his own bright
silver bit! lime was heightened
! from days to weeks. A notice in the
| journal Che really bought a copy OF
the one containing the announce
men) formally stated that after a