"Pack of crazy fools, Used to be a saying about Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always been a lottery"
Did you hear, some town have already removed the lottery.
Every year, after the lottery, Mr. Summers began talking again about a new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything being done. The black box grew shabbier each year: by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained
I think this year we should replace this old box.
Forget about it, it is perfectly fine.
“ Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal- company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd.”