d in
such a neat and intelligible manner, as to render it worthy
of being (according to its design) a _Companion for Youth._
We select the following article as a specimen of the work.

LOTTERY,

A kind of public game at hazard, in order to raise money for
the service of the state. A lottery consists of several
numbers of blanks and prizes, which are drawn out of wheels,
one of which contains the numbers of the tickets, and the
other the corresponding blanks and prizes. Besides the
consideration that this, as well as all other kinds of
gambling for money, tends to corrupt the public morals, it is
also to be considered that the purchasers of the tickets are
never permitted to play the game on fair and equal ground.
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly
fair lottery; or one in which the whole gain compensated the
whole loss; because the undertaker could make nothing by it.
In lotteries the tickets are really not worth the price which
is paid by the original purchasers, and yet they often sell
in the market at a considerable advance: the vain hope of
gaining some of the great prizes is the cause of this demand.
In order to have a better chance for some of the large
prizes, some people purchase several tickets, and others
small shares in a still greater number. There is not,
however, a more certain proposition in mathematics, than that
the more tickets you adventure upon, the more likely you are
to be a loser. Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery
and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your
tickets, the nearer you approach to this certainty.

The above is surely a just account of the nature and
principles of a Lottery; yet it does not destroy the fact,
that, distributed as the tickets always are among thousands,
there must be some gainers, and that, in spite of
mathematics, there is a lucky number, which must draw the
capital prize in the Plymouth Beach Lottery (without any
deduction) of 12000 dollars. Both the _Historical Dictionary_
and Lottery _Tickets_ may be had at Cushing & Appleton's old
stand, one door west of Central Building;--where BANK BILLS
are exchanged.

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Lottery at the celebrated "Wayside Inn" at Sudbury in 1760.

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