Almost nobody is too poor to play in the State Lottery at Naples which is drawn every week. Though a very beggar may have but 50 centesimi (2½¢), one of the 150 state banks will let him risk his all. Shoals of poor people win petty sums every week. But naturally the most stupendous prizespaid on luckiest combinations of lucky numbersturn up only once or twice in a decade. Six years ago $2,000,000 was won on the series 8, 65, 90, and ever since, with a peculiar fatalism, thousands of people in Southern Italy have been backing these same numbers...
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