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Show Waited Long tor Fortune. H lie might have been rich ' fifteen H years ago, but n ISclglnn who pur- H chased n bond In 1003 hadn't uppltcd H for the list of numbers dntwn In H state lotteries In' 1007. A boor man- H from tho country happening to bo H lit Antwerp for tho first tlmo for H many years, entered the ontijca ot thn H Catsso Commimnlo to seo lAtho bond' H which ho had taken out In the tnu H of 1003 had won a prize In tho yearly, Hj lottery. 11a thought that peihppft ha , H had won 110 francs In pty yeny'H H draw. After waiting ImpntKTutly wbt)i M the cashier searched the cords ha H was Informed that his nuiilncr had H been drawn In 1007, nnd that' ho wnu M entitled to a bonus of 200,000 franc H (10,000 at normal exchange rates). H |