The policeman opened а small bag. In it there were а lot of pictures of eyes and ears, hair and mouths. 'I need а picture of the man's face. Can you help mе?' he said.
'Yes,' said Еmmа. 'Не was tall and he had long, dirty brown hair. He wore blue trousers and а white shirt with а picture of а footballer. Не had brown eyes . . .' Carefully she took the small pictures and made а big picture of the young man's face. She checked the picture carefully.
‘What colour were his shoes?’ asked the policeman.
Shoes! Suddenly Emma remembered her new shoes. Where were they? She told the policeman about her shoes, but then she began to cry and could not stop.
A nurse came up to Emma’s bed. ‘Please go now,’ she said to the policeman. ‘Mrs. Carter needs to sleep.’
Lesson 1. Chapter 2. The winning ticket
Jason Williams came home and sat down on his bed. He was twenty-two years old. He lived with his father and mother in three small rooms at the top of a tall building. Every day he went out, but he did not go to work. Jason stole things. Sometimes he stole things from shops or cars; and sometimes he stole money from old people like Emma Carter. Today he was angry.
'I took that old woman's bag,' he thought. 'What did I get? Two pounds, seventy-four pence, and а lottery ticket! And it was an old, cheap bag too.'
Jason knew about lottery tickets. He bought five tickets every weekend. He put Emma's lottery ticket in his pocket and forgot about it. Then he went out for а drink.
At the hospital а nurse put Emma to bed in а room with five other women. There was а television in the room, and at eight o'clock everybody watched the lottery. For а minute Emma watched too, but she felt very tired and soon she closed her eyes and slept. So 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 tea. Then he opened his father's newspaper and found the winning lottery numbers: 5, 12, 23, 24, 38, 41. He checked his five lottery tickets. 'No good!' he said.
Then he remembered the old woman's ticket and checked those numbers too: 5, 12, 23, 24, 38, 41. He checked them three times. Six winning numbers!
'I'm а winner!' he said. He kissed the ticket. Then he ran into the living-room and kissed his mother.