the lottery
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- “the stool was put in the center of the square and Mr. Summers set the black box down on it. The villagers kept their distance, leaving a space between themselves and the stool, and when Mr. Summers said,"Some of 50 you fellows want to give me a hand?" there was a hesitation before two men, Mr. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter, came forward to hold the box steady on the stool while Mr. Summers stirred up the papers inside it.”
- "Old Man Warner snorted. "Pack of crazy fools," he said. "Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go backto living in caves, nobody work any more, and lives that way for a while.Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, come heavy soon. First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acoms.”
- "It isn't fair,"
- , “Mrs. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Dunbar. "Come on," she said. "Hurry up." Mrs. Dunbar had small stones in both hands, and she said, gasping for breath, "I can't run at all. you'll have to go ahead and 'll catch up with you." The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles.Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately
- "Come on," she said. "Hurry up."
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