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72. PIk k6p p' ixt. " White Pigeou Ticket." Tickets used by players^ 

 (fig. 213). A lottery. China and Cliinese in the United States. 

 Carried on by organized companies among the Chinese in China and 

 in their settlements in the United States. The tickets are marked with 

 eighty numbers, which are represented by the first eighty characters 

 of the -'Thousand Character Classic.'' The players bet on ten or more 

 numbers, marking the characters selected on the tickets. The draw- 



Fig. 213. 



LOTTERY TICKET {pdh kop p'iu). 



Impression, 3| inches square. 

 Chinese in United States. 



Cat. No. 169327, U.S.N. M. From Korean Games. 



ings are conducted by means of eighty pieces of paper, each having 

 one of the eighty characters written upon it. Twenty characters are 

 drawn at random at each drawing, and the players win in proportion 

 to the number they guess.^ The name of the lottery, jmh M^), "White 

 Pigeon," is probably a slang phrase for j>a7,- h(jp, meaning "one hundred 

 united," a name whi(;h is quite intelligible in the light of the Korean 

 money-lending clubs. 



1 Cat. No. 169327, U.S.N.M. Gift of Stewart Culin. 



2 Stewart Culin, for detailed account see The Gambling Games of the Chinese in 

 America, Philadelphia, 1891. 



