hom I saw there
Had his fiddle just before him,
And played for himself a stormy air,
While the evening-red shone o'er him.

And the second puffed his pipe again
Serenely and undaunted,
As if he at least of earthly men
Had all the luck that he wanted.

In sleep and comfort the last was laid,
In a tree his cymbal {238} lying,
Over its strings the breezes played,
O'er his heart a dream went flying.

Ragged enough were all the three,
Their garments in holes and tatters;
But they seemed to defy right sturdily
The world and all worldly matters.

Thrice to the soul they seemed to say,
When earthly trouble tries it,
How to fiddle, sleep it, and smoke it away,
And so in three ways despise it.

And ever anon I look around,
As my wagon onward presses,
At the gypsy faces darkly browned,
And the long black flying tresses.

TRIN ROMANI CHALIA.

Dikdom me trin geeria
Sar yeckno a tacho Rom,
Sa miro wardo ghias adur
Apre a wafedo drom.

O yeckto sos boshengero,
Yuv kellde pes-kokero,
O kamlo-dud te perele
Sos lullo apre lo.

O duito sar a swagele
Dikde 'pre lestes tuv,
Ne kamde kumi, penava me
'Dre sar o miduvels puv.

O trinto sovade kushto-bak
Lest 'zimbel adre rukk se,
O bavol kelld' pre i tavia,
O sutto 'pre leskro zi.

Te sar i lengheri rudaben
Shan katterdi-chingerdo
Awer me penav' i Romani chals
Ne kesserden chi pa lo.

Trin dromia lende sikkerden kan
Sar dikela wafedo,
Ta bosher, tuver te sove-a-le
Aja sa bachtalo.

Dikdom palal, sa ghiom adur
Talla yeckno Romani chal
'Pre lengheri kali-brauni mui,
Te lengheri kali bal.

II. THE CROCUS-PITCHER. {241} (PHILADELPHIA.)

It was a fine spring noon, and the corner of Fourth and Library streets
in Philadelphia was like a rock in the turn of a rapid river, so great
was the crowd of busy business men which flowed past. Just out of the
current a man paused, put down a parcel which he carried, turned it into
a table, placed on it several vials, produced a bundle of hand-bills, and
began, in the language of his tribe, to _cant_--that is, _cantare_, to
sing--the virtues of a medicine which was certainly _patent_ in being
spread out by him to extremest thinness.