Show AX UNLUCKY PROPHET b Hour An Italian Seer TVaa Treated S When lie Prophesied Falsely I An Italian hermit has recently ex jl < ncnced in his own person the wisdom J f the maxim which runs never proph py unless you know This hermit hj somehow or other acquired the repu 1 ftOn of being able to divine the future I even to the foretelling of the numbers 1 xach would win prizes at the next lot I ty raw Upon being consulted by a I1er of Avellino named Tozzi the her I JI t had the imprudence to select three nmbers and it unfortunately happened I that when the draw took place these numbers all won prizes This fact soon became known and the hermits modest cell was besieged by the whole population AtC of the district who believed that at last the philosophers stone had been discovered itcS discov-ered But the hermits good luck was S not destined to be renewed and after he peasants had been reduced to beg gary by following the holy mans tips several of them determined to Lave their revenge upon him Tozzi fus the man who had won in the first in JLLl fanee but had lost all his winnings back with heavy interest took the lead in this ronspiracy and the hermit was entrapped en-trapped into a lonely house where S several of his victims had assembled I They proceeded to break both his arms heels with an iron bar placed him in an empty ask and took him into the house of i Tozzi himself where he was locked cp in a barn and had his wounds roughly dressed < by a village barber Altogether i he remained three months in captivity with nothiug but straw to lie upon ltv and little to eat and he would probably hare died in the barn if chance had not put the police on the track of his lersecutors ten of whom have been arrested and are about to be tried It f N fortunate for the sporting prophets 0 at home that failure does not entailS entail-S such consequences as these London and Srs |