Brigette Davis

And so then a customer could say to my mother, Fannie, what does fish play for?

And what does that mean?

That means that the customer is asking, what does the dream book mean?

Say, the three-digit equivalent is for fish.

And you might ask, what are dream books?

Yeah.

What is the dream book?

The dream book was a publication, a little book that really was more like the Bible for numbers players.

And it essentially was encyclopedic.

It really listed every person, place, or thing you could imagine as well as experience that someone could dream about.

And I mean just about anything.

And so, again, as I was saying, these experiences or places or persons or things all had three digit sort of numbers assigned to them.

And so that's how you figured out, again, what does fish play for?

Well, the dream book says it plays for four, nine, seven.

I think because I dreamed it, I'm going to play that.

And there were many different versions of dream books.

Dream books date back, way back, into the 19th century.

And so the more popular ones in my household were two in particular.

The Red Devil dream book and the Three Wisemen dream book.

And so a customer might have a preference for one over the other and say...