Jackson    1   Lottery System

• morning of June 27
• only about 300 people in the village so the lottery took less than 2 hours
• children assembled first and gathered stones
• held in the Square
• black wooden box that was not in good shape
• conducted by Mr. Summers

Jackson    2   Preparing for the Drawing

• Mr. Summers replaced the old wood chips with paper inside the black box
• box was placed in different areas each year
• had to make a list of each member in each family
• postmaster must swear Mr. Summers in as the official of the lottery
• Mrs. Hutchinson forgot it was the day of the lottery

Jackson     3-4     The Actual Drawing

• Dunbar broke his leg and is not there
• his wife has to draw for him
• Mr. Summers reads the heads of the families first to draw
• everyone was nervous
• they talk about how giving up the lottery would lead to nothing but trouble

Jackson     5-6       Bill Hutchinson's Family

• Bill got it
• Tessie shouted that he did not have enough time to take the paper he wanted
• has three kids he has to draw for: Bill Jr., Nancy, and Dave
• each family member had to draw one piece of paper out of the black box

Jackson      7-8      The Results

• Tessie, Bill's wife had the piece of paper with the black dot, which means it was her
• the pile of stones that the boys had made earlier were ready
• she was in the middle of a cleared space and stones were thrown at her
• she still screams that it was not fair