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"Mebbe some o' them Injuns air named 'Gyptians'," suggested Spears, the blacksmith. "Naw, sir," spoke up the fiddler, who had been to Quallatown, and was the ethnographic authority of the meeting. "Tennessee Injuns be named Cher'-kee, an' Chick'saw, an' Creeks." There was a silence.
"I don't doubt," he said carelessly, "but what we could pay ourselves well for the job, spoil the 'Gyptians, you know, forage on the enemy. Plenty of portables in them houses, eh!" "I never said" Sam spoke slowly and deliberately "I wanted to 'sassinate him, or rob him, or burgle him.
Petulengro stopped short, and looked at it stedfastly: "Fino covar dove odoy sas miro a fine thing were that if it were but mine!" he exclaimed. "If you covet it," said I, "why do you not purchase it?" "We low 'Gyptians never buy animals of that description; if we did we could never sell them, and most likely should be had up as horse-stealers."
"Well, then I says to the chief, here, says I, 'Chief, this here's our A-number-one chance to spile the 'Gyptians; get heap gun, heap powder, heap lead, heap scalp. The chief, he says, 'Wah! which is good Injun-talk for anything ye like, and so here we are, hot-foot on the trail o' that there hoss-captain and his powder varmints."
Those Gypsies ought to be all shut up in jail," said Tom, vigorously. "Them 'Gyptians?" drawled Peck, in surprise. "What they got ter do with it?" "Why, they had everything to do with it. Don't you know that they carried off both my sister here and Ruth Fielding?" "Look here," said the blacksmith-constable, slowly, "let me understand this. Your sister has been with the 'Gyptians?" "Yes.
He bowed his chin once more upon the instrument, and again the slow drawling conversation proceeded to soft music. "Ef ye'll b'lieve me," said the advanced thinker, "I never war so conflusticated in my life ez I war when he stood up in meetin' an' told 'bout'n the tables of the law bein' on the bald! I 'lowed 'twar somewhar 'mongst some sort'n people named 'Gyptians."
Immediately his face became very bright, and into his eyes returned the far-off look already described. 'I will first take the predella, which represents Isis behind the Veil, said he. 'Imagine yourself thousands of years away from this time. Imagine yourself thousands of miles away, among real Egyptians. 'Real 'Gyptians! cried Sinfi. 'Who says the Romanies ain't real 'Gyptians?
A negro preacher once explained that the Red Sea, just at that time, was "a little bit frozen over," and the Jews, carrying only what they had borrowed "frum the Gyptians," crossed the ice safely; but when Pharaoh came with his thundering war-chariots, the ice broke, and "dey all was drown'd." But a nigger in the audience objected that the Red Sea is "in de quator," and is never frozen over.
'Perhaps it's Scotch also for that? 'What do ye mean by speaking in that guise to a gentleman? said he; 'you insolent vagabond, without a name or a country. 'There you are mistaken, said I; 'my country is Egypt, but we 'Gyptians, like you Scotch, are rather fond of travelling; and as for name my name is Jasper Petulengro, perhaps you have a better; what is it? 'Sandy Macraw. At that, brother, the gentlemen burst into a roar of laughter, and all the ladies tittered."
Can't somebody catch somebody's eye? The seven-year drought of Egypt's in my throat!" The Colonel began to laugh, while Zack, highly elated, said: "Dat wuz a plague, Marse Brent!" "Well, don't I know it?" he looked pitifully up at him. "Naw, sah," Zack laughed again. "I mean de 'Gyptians didn' have no drought; dey had de plague dem seben yeahs! I 'member dat story!"
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