Jason Williams came home and sat down on his was twenty-two years lived with his father and mother in three small rooms at the top of a tall day he went out,but he did not go to stole' he stole things from shops or cars;and sometimes he stole money from old people like Emma he was angry.
I took that old woman's bag,'he thought.‘What did I get?Two pounds²,seventy-four pence,and a lottery ticket!And it was an old,cheap bag too.’
Jason knew about lottery bought five tickets every put Emma's lottery ticket in his pocket and forgot about he went out for a drink.
At the hospital a nurse put Emma to bed in a room with five other was a television in the room,and at eight o'clock everybody watched the a minute
Emma watched too,but she felt very tired and soon she closed her eyes and she did not hear the winning numbers for that week's lottery …
On Sunday at twelve o'clock Jason got out of bed and made some he opened his father's newspaper and found the winning lottery numbers:5,12,23,24,38, checked his five lottery good!'he said.
Then he remembered the old woman's ticket and checked those numbers too:5,12,23,24,38, checked them three winning numbers!
T'm a winner!’he kissed the he ran into the living-room and kissed his mother.
‘Here,what's the matter,Jason?’said Lily sometimes hit her,but he did not usually kiss cigarette fell out of her mouth.
'The lottery!I'm this week's winner,Mum!Look -six winning 'm rich!'
Jason's father came into the living-room.‘What's all this noise?”he said.
'Joe,Joe!?said Lily.'Jason's got six winning numbers in the 're rich!?'
' Wrong!”said 'm rich!'
Hus mother and father began to speak at the same Jason did not listen,He went out to the telephone box'in the street and made a very important telephone call.
On Monday morning a policeman came to the hospital with Emma's new shoes.
'A little girl found them in the street and took them to the police station,'he said.
'How kind of her!'said Emma.
We found your bag too,'said the policeman.'But there's nothing in it,Mrs 'm sorry.'
It doesn't matter,'said 'm very pleased to have the son gave it to me a long time lives in Australia,but he telephones me every week ..And now I've got my new shoes you very much.'Suddenly she felt happier.
That evening an ambulance took Emma made a cup of tea and sat down to watch the television news.
The newsreader'smiled into Emma's living-room.
'And now for this week's lottery winning numbers were:5,12,23,24,38, here is the man with the winning ticket -Jason Williams!Jason is twenty-two and now he's a rich 's got acheque from Sunshine Lotteries for five million 's a lot of money!Well,Jason,how are you feeling tonight?"
'Wonderful!'
'And what are you going to do with your money?'
'Ob,I'm going to buy a house with fifty rooms,and a big expensive''m going to go to New York,Miami …’
Emma looked at the young man on the Williams had a big smile on his face,but he had long,dirty brown hair,brown eyes …Emma sat up quickly.‘That's the man!'she remember his hit me and snatched my bag,and stole my lottery ticket -my winning ticket,with my winning numbers!'
She got up and went to the telephone.‘Hullo -police?'she said.