But you have not.

So you had better go and play three numbers at the lottery, the day of the month, the number of the boat and any other one that you like.

In that way you may still make a little money if you have luck.

For you have made a bad bargain with the Children of the King, and you know it." Black Rag was much struck by the idea and promptly went up to the town to invest his spare cash in the three numbers, taking his own age for the third.

As luck would have it the two first numbers actually turned up and he won thirty francs that week, which, as he justly observed, brought the price of the boat up to eighty.