AUNT MARIA’S LUCK.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 42, 24 May 1907, Page 7

AUNT MARIA’S LUCK.

An elderly lady who was conducting a party of nephews and unices along the Kiviera was persuaded by the young people to take them to the Casino. Aunt. Maria, as we may conventionally call her, inwardly resolved to give her proteges a lesson in the futility of gambling. Having made a'private examination of the odds against the player in a certain roulette game, site decided, shrewdly and accurately enough, that to place <i coin on a single number was to count almost certain loss. When, thereiore, she took her parly into the Salles de Jen, she exhorted them to note how impossible it was to make money by play, and, to point her moral, placed a five-franc piece on the single number twenty-five, By rights, twenty-five should have Ipst, the chances being thirty-seven to 'one against it. But “the best-liaid plans’ —•latenty-five won, to Aunt Maria’s discomforturo : and a delighted nephew gathered up from the doth her winnings—one hundred and seven-ty-five francs —complimenting her upon her good fortune and judgement. Aunt Maria will not rely a-a-Rin nn the futility of oamblinm