11/17 Now in those days there were no Rommanichals, and consequently no rat-catchers." "'Taint so now-a-days," replied the Gipsy, gloomily. "The business is quite spiled, and not to get a livin' by." "Avo. And by the time the people had almost gone crazy, one day there came a man--a Gipsy--the first Gipsy who had ever been seen in _dovo tem_ (or that country). And he agreed for a thousand crowns to clear all the rats away. |