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told by Theodore Hook -- Description of a lottery from its commencement to its end.
Another sad phase connected with the lottery was the number of suicides which were the outcome of it. We need scarcely contemplate the serious side of this melancholy question, if we can find the slightest amusement therein; and to my mind there is some in the following anecdote.