SAINT ANTOINE'S
THIS CHAIN THAT COMES FROM VENEZUELA WAS WRITTEN BY ST.
ANTOINE
DE SEDI
MISSIONARY FROM SOUTH AMERICA. SINCE THIS CHAIN MUST MAKE A
TOUR OF THE
WORLD, YOU MUST MAKE 20 COPIES IDENTICAL TO THIS ONE, AND SEND
IT TO YOUR
FRIENDS, PARENTS OR ACQUAINTENCES AND AFTER A FEW DAYS YOU WILL
GET A SURPRISE.
TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING:
CONSTANTINE DISO RECEIVED THE CHAIN IN 1953. HE ASKED HIS
SECRETARY
TO MAKE
24 COPIES AND SEND THEM. A FEW DAYS LATER, HE WON THE LOTTERY OF
2 MILLION
DOLLARS IN HIS COUNTRY.
CARLOS BRANDT, AN OFFICE EMPLOYEE, RECEIVED THE CHAIN. HE FORGOT
IT AND LOST IT.
A FEW DAYS AFTER, HE LOST HIS JOB. HE FOUND THE CHAIN,
SENT IT OUT TO 24
PEOPLE, AND NINE DAYS LATER, HE GOT A BETTER JOB.
ZERIN BERRESKELLI RECEIVED THE CHAIN, NOT BELIEVING IN IT HE
THREW IT AWAY.
NINE DAYS LATER HE DIED.
FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER SHOULD THIS CHAIN BE BROKEN!!!!!!
MAKE 20 COPIES AND SEND THEM. IN NINE DAYS YOU WILL GET A
SURPRISE.
WRITE F.E.G.E. IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE ENVELOPE INSTEAD
OF A STAMP.
THINK A PRAYER
TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND ALL WILL ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT HE WILL
LIGHT THE WAY. THIS PRAYER HAS BEEN SENT TO YOU FOR GOOD LUCK.
THE ORIGINAL
COPY CAME FROM THE NETHERLANDS. IT HAS BEEN AROUND THE WORLD
NINE TIMES.
THE LUCK HAS BEEN SENT TO YOU. YOU ARE TO RECEIVE THE GOOD
LUCK WITHIN
FOUR DAYS AFTER RECEIVING THIS LETTER. IT IS NOT A JOKE! YOU
WILL RECEIVE
IT IN THE MAIL. SEND 20 COPIES OF THIS LETTER TO PEOPLE YOU
THINK NEED
GOOD LUCK. PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY. DO NOT KEEP THIS LETTER.
IT MUST
LEAVE WITHIN 96 HOURS AFTER YOU RECEIVE IT.
A U.S. OFFICER RECEIVED $7,000. DON ELLIOT RECEIVED $68,000,
BUT LOST
IT BECAUSE HE BROKE THE CHAIN. WHILE IN THE PHILIPPINES, GENERAL
WALSH
LOST HIS LIFE SIX DAYS AFTER HE RECEIVED THIS LETTER. HE FAILED
TO CIRCU-
LATE THE PRAYER. HOWEVER, BEFORE HIS DEATH, HE RECEIVED
$775,000,
WHICH
HE WON.
PLEASE SEND 20 COPIES AND THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENS THE FOURTH DAY
AFTER.
ADD YOUR NAME TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS LIST AND LEAVE OFF THE TOP
NAME
WHEN COPYING THIS LETTER.
[whited out] SARAH MAGGIE
JACK ARMSTRONG WENDY GUTHRIE
[whited out] MELVIN VAN PEEBLES
MIKE JOHNSON JAYNE SCHWARTZ
[struck out] JOHN
WILSON
PAMELS NEESHAM JOHN W. KRYDA
BILL CHERRY JOSEPH
R. BROOKS FERN
LEAF
JESS GOLDSTEIN
RON CUNNINGHAM ALBERT B.
MOORE
STEPHEN D. GALLOWS YOKO ONO
MARY MEUCALSK NANCIE
MACKEY
CHARLOTTE MOORMAN
JUD YALKUT
DAVID ROSS
SEAN NIMME(?)
A.Zimmerman
J. BARRY
Barbara Ross(?)
DAVID KIZ(?)
John C. Fenn(?)
Julie A. Whitehead
Photocopy (generation 9+) of neatly hand
printed original. On legal size that paper folded to make an envelope.
A few letters cut off at right margin. Last nine names in fourth column
in different hands. Envelope postmarked June 4, 1974 in Maryland; sent
to Nancy Krueger of Indianapolis. Outer envelope has "F.E.R.E." (not
"F.E.G.E:
as instructed) printed at upper left corner;` bears stamp. Collected by
Prof. William Hansen, Bloomington, Indiana. Lines preserved. Digitized
by DWV. Was 74-06.
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