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When the weather permitted, the shop was often left to keep itself, the door being hospitably propped open with a brick, while the dog and his master went gypsying. With a ragged, well-worn book in one pocket, a parcel of bread and cheese in another, and his flute slung over his shoulder, the Piper was prepared to spend the day abroad.
Richard joined me here for a night, and then in the morning went off by another route to explore some district round about. I also did some exploring in another direction. So we went on from day to day, camping about, or rather gypsying, in the desert among the Bedawin. I got to love it very much.
All this raw material was stolen from the respective haylofts and gardens at home, though, as the fathers owned, with an appreciative grin, the boys might have taken it openly for the asking. That, however, would so have alloyed the charm of gypsying that it was not to be thought of for a moment; and they crept about on their foraging expeditions with all the caution of a hostile tribe.
A thousand cries rent the air; the strolling mountebanks and gypsying booth-merchants; the peanut vendors; the boys with palm-leaf fans for sale; the candy sellers; the popcorn peddlers; the Italian with the toy balloons that float like a cluster of colored bubbles above the heads of the crowd, and the balloons that wail like a baby; the red-lemonade man, shouting in the shrill voice that reaches everywhere and endures forever: "Lemo!
"And then," he continued, "in taking, a course so obviously against your wishes and judgment it occurred to me well, that I was eating at your table and sleeping in your house." To his son's astonishment, Hilary Vane turned on him almost truculently. "I thought the time'd come when you'd want to go off again, gypsying," he cried. "I'd stay right here in Ripton, Judge.
Rough weather, river mud, and all the other exigencies of a moving camp, are beginning to tell upon clothing; we are becoming like gypsies in raiment, as well as color. But what a soul-satisfying life is this gypsying! We possess the world, while afloat on the Ohio!
It must be confessed that the gypsying of these Eastern Bohemians is not so free a life as is popularly supposed. The naik or sovereign of each tanda, or camp, seems to be possessed of absolute power, and in this connection the long two-handed sword suggested much less gentle reflections. The Banjara, however, though a nomad, is a serviceable one, for he is engaged in trade.
Had I not better become in reality what I had hitherto been merely playing at a tinker or a gypsy? But I soon saw that I was not fitted to become either in reality. It was much more agreeable to play the gypsy or the tinker than to become either in reality. I had seen enough of gypsying and tinkering to be convinced of that.
"And then," he continued, "in taking, a course so obviously against your wishes and judgment it occurred to me well, that I was eating at your table and sleeping in your house." To his son's astonishment, Hilary Vane turned on him almost truculently. "I thought the time'd come when you'd want to go off again, gypsying," he cried. "I'd stay right here in Ripton, Judge.
Any book on camp-life will tell how to meet or avoid them, and to such treatises I beg to refer the reader who wishes to experiment on this delightful mode of gypsying. The class of persons who find it easy to reach the most charming sites and to secure the help of competent guides is, as I have said in another place, increasing rapidly.
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