ENG 200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sodium Hydride
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On a warm day in late june (the 27th, to be exact), villagers gather in the square to participate in a lottery run by mr. summers, who officiates at all the big civic events. The children arrive first and begin collecting stones until their parents call them to order. Mrs. hutchinson arrives late and chats briefly with her friend, mrs. delacroix. Mr. summers calls each head of the household (always a grown man) forward to a black wooden box, where each selects a slip of paper. Once the men have chosen, mr. summers allows everyone to open the paper and see who has been selected. His wife immediately starts protesting so we get the sense that they"re not about to win a couple million dollars. There are five people total in the hutchinson family. Mr. summers places five slips of paper into the box and each member of the family draws.
