[Grace Harlowe’s Senior Year at High School by Jessie Graham Flower]@TWC D-Link bookGrace Harlowe’s Senior Year at High School CHAPTER VI 1/11
THE THANKSGIVING BAZAAR The bazaar was at its height.
No one would have guessed that staid old Assembly Hall could lend itself to such levity. At one end a band of gypsies had pitched their tents in true Romany fashion.
There were dark-eyed gypsy maids in gaudy clothing, who gayly jingled their tambourines and wheedled good-natured sightseers into their main tent with extravagant stories of the wonderful Romany dancing girls whose unequaled dancing might be seen for the small sum of ten cents.
While aged gypsies crouched here and there croaking mysteriously of their power to reveal the future, and promising health, wealth and happiness to those who crossed their out-stretched palms with silver. In front of one of the tents several gypsy boys sat grouped in picturesque attitudes, industriously twanging guitars and mandolins.
The whole encampment was lighted by flaring torches on the ends of long poles, and was the final touch needed to give the true gypsy effect. The rest of the space in the hall had been given up to booths.
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