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the lottery -- Servants bitten by the mania -- _Morocco men_ -- Many prosecutions -- Cost to the country -- Several law cases -- Story of Mr. Bartholomew.
What class of men these lottery-office keepers were, we learn in a little book[29] believed to have been published about 1770.