but themselves and the president.--The conversation changed
and the company respectively retired.

Now hear the conclusion. I was passing through the same place
on the 14th of March following, and was informed that eleven
of the twelve matches had been solemnized, and that the young
gentlemen of eight couples of the eleven had declared that
their diffidence was so great that they certainly should not
have addressed their respective wives, if the above scheme
had not been introduced.----> Gentlemen under 20 and ladies
under 15 were excluded as unmarriageable.

You will be pleased to let the public hear of this scheme,
and I hope it will be productive of much good, by being
practised in Virginia.

_A Married Man without Children._

The weak spot in this plan, we imagine, would be the difficulty in
keeping the _blanks_ entirely secret.

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We have not undertaken to give an account of all the lotteries of which
we have seen advertisements, as our limits would not admit of it, even
if it could be made interesting to those who like to read about such
matters; New England alone would fill a large volume. We will name only
a few of the more prominent lotteries,--the Land Bank, in 1759; the
Pavement on Boston Neck, the same year. Then there was the Charlestown
lottery, the Hatfield Bridge, Sudbury, the Amoskeag Canal, the South