A REMARKABLE INSTANCE.
The writer of a little book entitled "Things I P^member," quotes a -remarkable instance of what mast people will set down, at once as "amazing luck." A friend of the author's escorted on one occasion the three daughters of a clergyman through the Casino at Baden. They,/had been strictly forbidden by their father to stake any money, at the tables, but their, .escort insisted on staking money* for them on the numbers of their respective ages. The youngest gave her. age as 17, and into this; number, to 'the astonishment of all, the ball rolled, and the young lady pocketed 35 louis. The .second, whose age was 19,. had similar, luck, to their increased astonishment. But when tl\e eldest was asked her age, and she replied "23," the ball rolled into 26. As the party left the Casino the author's friend remarked to the youngest girl on tho extraordinary stroke of luck, adding that |f the eldest, girl's age had been 26 instead of 23, the coincidence would have been very little short of miraculous. "But it was," the girl replied, "she is 26."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8850, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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A REMARKABLE INSTANCE.
Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8850, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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