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There was a town of about 300 people which has an annual lottery drawn. Mr. Summers directed the whole thing and prepared carefully folded white papers enough for every head of the family with only 1 that has a black mark on it and put them into the ancient black box. On June 27th, everyone gathers and the children picked out a pile of round stones. When everyone was there, Mr. Summers called out the head of each family one by one who would go and pick out a folded paper and hold it in his hand until everyone got one. Mrs. Hutchinson came late and hurried to get beside her husband. Everyone got one and opened the papers. Mr. Bill Hutchinson got the one with the black dot. Mrs. Hutchinson shouted that Bill didn't have enough time to pick one, so this is unfair. They should have a redraw. His whole family, Nancy, their 12-year-old daughter, Bill, Jr., Little Dave, Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson, and Mr. Bill Hutchinson, they each need to draw out a paper again. Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson got the dotted one and everyone began to throw stones at her. Mrs. Hutchinson kept shouting that this was not fair, but was stoned to death. Even her own son Dave and her friends threw stones at her.
I don't quite get why my classmates like this story. I don't like it. It was weird. Why do people stone people to death annually?
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