In one of the parks in the city was a native fair and display of art industries, and at the zoological gardens the various societies of the Roman Catholic church in Calcutta held a bazaar and raffled off many valuable and worthless articles, sold barrels of tea and tons of cake, and sweetmeats to enormous crowds of natives, who attended in their holiday attire.

He has a notion for raffling his biggest diamond.

However, the being told, in a multitude of ingenious forms, that I am a wretched logician, is not likely to raffle my tranquillity.