. Thackerayana;. Tra il pari andthe dispari, che non ho potuto perdere la fortunata class.Many conclusioni ho formato, e molti experi-ments ho cercato di determinare da quale di quei biglietti potrei più ragionevolmente expetecchiches. Infine, non potendo soddisfare i miselfby qualsiasi modo di ragionamento, ho scritto il dado numbersupon, e assegnato cinque ore ogni giorno per il divertimento di gettarli in una garret;ed esaminando l'evento da un registro esatto,trovato, la sera prima della lotteria wasdrawn, quello uno dei miei numeri era girato verso l'alto cinque volte più di qualsiasi altro di tutto il resto in trecentotrenta mila

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. Thackerayana;. between the even andthe odd, that I might not miss the lucky class.Many conclusions did I form, and many experi-ments did I try to determine from which ofthose tickets I might most reasonably expectriches. At last, being unable to satisfy myselfby any modes of reasoning, I wrote the numbersupon dice, and allotted five hours every day tothe amusement of throwing them in a garret;and examining the event by an exact register, found, on the evening before the lottery wasdrawn, that one of my numbers had turned upfive times more than any of the rest in threehundred and thirty thousand throws. This experiment was fallacious; the first day presented theticket a detestable blank. The rest came out with differentfortune, and in conclusion I lost thirty pounds by this greatadventure. 1 The prize which had been suffered to slip from me filled mewith anguish, and, knowing that complaint would only expose meto ridicule, I gave myself up silently to grief, and lost by degreesmy appetite and my rest.. The Rambler.—Vol. III. No. 187. Love alters not for us his hard decrees, Not though beneath the Thracian clime we freeze, Or the mild bliss of temperate skies forego, And in mid-winter tread Sithonian snow :—Love conquers all.—-Drydm. Anningait and Ajut, a Greenland History. 1 In one of the large caves to which the families of Greenlandretire together to pass the cold months, and which may be termedtheir villages or cities, a youth and maid, who came from different THE RAMBLER: 40 r parts of thecountry, were so much distinguished for their beautythat they were called by the rest of the inhabitants Anningait andAjut, from their supposed resemblance to their ancestors of thesame names who had been transformed of old into the sun andmoon. The elegance of Ajuts dress, and the judicious; disposition ofher ornaments of coral and shells, had such an: effect uponAnningait that he could no longer be restrained from a declarationof his love.- He, therefore, composed a poem i

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