1. The Lottery
The first indication that something might be amiss is the description of the boys gathering stones into large piles. However in the context of a country scene, boys gathering stones does not seem unusual. Boys will be boys, and boys like to throw stones. ... The long standing tradition of the town and other towns in the vicinity is to select a scapegoat to stone to death! ... After all, as the elders say, we've always had the lottery and by giving up the lottery would take the village back to the "stone-age". ...
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