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The Gaming Table by Andrew Steinmetz

 CHAPTER XIII. page 17

This reasoning, however, is very uncertain.

The sixteenth of a lottery ticket, which is the smallest
share that can be purchased, has not for many years been sold
under thirty shillings, a sum much too large for a person who
buys old shoes `translated,' and even for the `translator'
himself, to advance; we may therefore safely conclude that the
purchase of tickets is not the mode of gambling by which
Crispin's customers are brought to distress.

A great number of foreign lotteries still exist in vigorous
operation. Some are supported by the state, and others are only
authorized; most of them are flourishing. In Germany,
especially, lotteries are abundant; immense properties are
disposed of by this method. The `bank' gains, of course,
enormously; and, also of course, a great deal of trickery and
swindling, or something like it, is perpetrated.

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