A LUCKY TICKET.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3125, 22 February 1879, Page 1

A LUCKY TICKET.

This Gentleman JWho Had a Nice LITTLR SBBVANT GlHi. An Italian gentleman with a nice little income had a nice little servant girl, who said to him one morning: "O, if you please, won't you give me a frano to buy a lottery ticket with,?, I dreamed last night that .41,144, was going to draw [the ■capital prize, and-1 want to buy that number." • He gare the girl three francs, and, next -day, on happening to look at the report of the drawing saw that No. 41,144 had drawn the capital prize of 518,652*85 lire, or, to Kpeak more accurately, 3100,000. Returning quietly to the house, he concealed his emotion, and' said to the servant .girl: '• Susan, I hare long observed with 'approbation your piety, beauty, modesty, skill in the art of Cookery, and other good qualities, calculated to adorn the highest station. Be mine. Let me lead you to the hymeneal altar. No delay. Just as you are,' 1 "Honest Injun" said the blushing 'virgin.- ■ ■ -•' ■ :..•:.■ .■•'..■;,■-, '■: -.'■:, " You bet! I swear by yonder silrer spoon, that tips wi'Ji beauty all the fruit* pi 6 top—" " Then couut me in, and regard me hereafter in the light of your turtledove."

" Hasten, then, Susan; put on your boqnet and shawl and let us take a walk around the block to the only friar's cell, where we shall be made one>"

In a few minutes the bride-elect returned clad in a red, red shawl, with a black velvet bonnet trimmed with sunflowi rs and Victoria regia. In. a few minutes more the ceremony had beeu performed and the twain were one. They returned to the house,-where the husband carelessly took up the paper, and said, with a. well counterfeited start of surprise : " Darling, everything seems bright for us upon our wedding day. You retnem* ber the ticket in the lottery that you dreamed about and I save you three francs to buy ? Where it it, my ovinest? " ; ; „

VO, I didn't buy it, I spent the money for (his duck of a bonnet."—New York World.;