six-seventy-six

Updated: July 1, 2025

"Will some boy step up to draw the tickets from the hat?" Four or five eager volunteers scrambled over the footlights. The professor selected the largest of them. "Number six-seventy-six!" John looked eagerly at the coupon which had been handed him at the door. "Number six-seventy-six! Who has it?" Harriette, the cast-off Harriette of last year, bobbed forward. "Ah," boomed the deep voice.

Herman Gastrell Seely - A Son of the City: A Story of Boy Life