But one all'us fell off, and to this here day he's never yet been able to get all seven on the seven stones." I think that my Gipsy told this story in connection with that of the Whistlers, because he was under the impression that it also was of Scriptural origin.

It is, however, really curious that the Gipsy term for an owlet is the _Maromengro's Chavi_, or Baker's Daughter, and that they are all familiar with the monkish legend which declares that Jesus, in a baker's shop, once asked for bread.

The mistress was about to give him a large cake, when her daughter declared it was too much, and diminished the gift by one half.
"He nothing said, But by the fire laid down the bread, When lo, as when a blossom blows-- To a vast loaf the manchet rose; In angry wonder, standing by, The girl sent forth a wild, rude cry, And, feathering fast into a fowl, Flew to the woods a wailing owl." According to Eilert Sundt, who devoted his life to studying the _Fanten and Tataren_, or vagabonds and Gipsies of Sweden and Norway, there is a horrible and ghastly semblance among them of something like a religion, current in Scandinavia.

Once a year, by night, the Gipsies of that country assemble for the purpose of un-baptizing all of their children whom they have, during the year, suffered to be baptized for the sake of gifts, by the Gorgios.

On this occasion, amid wild orgies, they worship a small idol, which is preserved until the next meeting with the greatest secresy and care by their captain.