![]() ![]() ![]() Tess Hutchinson is nearly late, but she arrives just in time to join her family in the crowd. Summers efficiently tends to all of the details and prepares to start the lottery. Summers was forced to switch to paper in order to fit all of the slips inside the box.īefore commencing the lottery, several lists had to be made: heads of households, heads of families, and members of each family. ![]() Originally, chips of wood were used, but as the town’s population increased, Mr. Summers stirs the slips of paper inside the black box. ![]() The black box used for the lottery is even older than the oldest town citizen, Old Man Warner. Graves, who follows him to bring the stool upon which Mr. Summers, who has no children and whose wife is unpleasant. Shortly thereafter, the men and women begin to gather, chatting amongst themselves before standing together as families. While the girls chat to one side, the boys, including Bobby Martin, Harry Jones, and Dickie Delacroix, begin to pocket stones. On a clear morning, June 27th, the townspeople, starting with the children, begin to assemble for the lottery to begin at ten in the morning. The setting is a small, nondescript town with a population of approximately three hundred people. ![]()
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