THE SILVER LAKE STORIES. 113

school, she burst into the house with
the cry, “Mamma, is my thirty thou-
sand dollar prize out yet ?”

One day her mother said to her,
“My dear, if you should get the thirty
thousand dollars, what would you do
with the money ?”

“Well, I'll tell you,” said Lilla; “I
would lay it all out in molasses candy
and peppermint drops, except two shil-
lings to go and see the elephant 5

Poor Lilla’s number, to her great
disappointment, came up a blank, but
on her birthday she had a shilling
given her, with which she bought
quite as much candy as was good for