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The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.

 

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The people of the village began to gather in the square

 

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  1. between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock
  2. in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days
  3. and had to be started on June 20th

 

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But in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o’clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner.

 

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The children assembled first College of Business, of course.

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The Zombo feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them;

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Their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands. The Lottery

 

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

 

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Soon the men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes. They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed.

 

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The original paraphernalia for the lottery

 

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There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it. 

 

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The one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here.

 

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