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![]() Tessie isn’t happy that they have to do this, she demands that they should redraw the lottery. It is found out that Bill Hutchinson has got the slip of paper that’s marked. Old man Warner says that only young fools would do such a ridiculous thing as removing the lottery ritual.Īfter everyone is finished drawing a slip of paper they open them. Adams tells Old man Warner that people in the north might stop the lottery and that in many villages the lottery has already been given up. Summer reads the rules and the lottery begins. Tessie Hutchinson arrives late as she forgot what the date was, people joke about her late arrival as she rushes to join her husband and children. Summers calls the names, the head of each household has to go and pick out a slip of paper. He did manage to replace the wooden chips which were used before the paper ones now. ![]() Summers tries every year to convince everyone to get a new box but nobody listens. ![]() This isn’t the original box the original box was lost even before the town’s oldest man (Old Warner) was born. He carries a black box that contains slips of paper inside. ![]()
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