Where ignorance is bliss tis folly t< be wise enough to miss the chief pnz< in a lottery. The merest accident hai just brought a fortune to a Parisian 11 this way, and no doubt believers 11 "systems" will be working out the odd: against their repeating his success That is exactly what Lady Halle s cool ' did. She won a great' sum on number 23. How was it, she was ask ed, that she came to choose so lucky i number? "Oh, I had a dream,' sh said. 'T dreamed three nights run ning of the figure seven, and as thr» times seven is twenty-three, I chos that number." The incident wa mentioned to Dean Stanley. Dea me," he said, very puzzled to find th point' of the joke. Light suddenl, 1 came into his eyes. "Ah, yes, I see, ' he said. "Three times seven, I sur. pose, is not twenty-three." — "H»ui trated London News."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 10 August 1907, Page 3
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