ed stockings, and her lovely little foot--gold and
diamond rings, violin, tambourine, the guitar, Wellington boots, and
starts upon his trip to Norway in the midst of summer beauty. Many times
he must have said to himself, "Oh! how delightful." "As we journeyed
onward, how fragrant the wild flowers--those wild flowers can never be
forgotten. Gipsies like flowers, it is part of their nature. Esmeralda
would pluck them, and forming a charming bouquet, interspersed with
beautiful wild roses, her first thoughts are to pin them in the
button-hole of the Romany Rye (Gipsy gentleman). As we journeyed quietly
through the forest, how delightful its scenes. Free from all care, we
enjoy the anticipation of a long and pleasant ramble in Norway's happy
land. We felt contented with all things, and thankful that we should be
so permitted to roam with our tents and wild children of nature in
keeping the solitudes we sought. The rain had soon ceased, tinkle,
tinkle went the hawk-bells on the collar of our Bura Rawnee as she led
the way along the romantic Norwegian road.

[Picture: A Respectable Gipsy and his Family "on the Road"]

"'Give the snakes and toads a twist,
And banish them for ever,'

sang Zachariah, ever and anon giving similar wild snatches. Then
Esmeralda would rocker about being the wife of the Romany Rye (Gipsy
gentleman) and as she proudly paced along in her heavy boots, she
pictured in imagery the pleasant life she should lead as her Romany Rye's
joovel, monshi, or somi. She was full of fun, yet there was nothing in
her fanciful delineations which could offend us. They were but the foam
of a crested wave, soon dissipated in the air. They were the evanescent
creations of a lively, open-hearted girl--wild notes trilled by the bird
of the forest. We came again into the open valley. Down a meadow gushed
a small streamlet which splashed from a wooden spout on to the roadside."
"The spot where we pitched our tents was near a sort of small natural
terrace, at the summit of a steep slope above the road, backed by a mossy
bank, shaded by brushwood and skirting the dense foliage of the dark
forest of pine and fir, above our camp." "We gave two of the peasants
some brandy and tobacco." "Then all our visitors left, except four
interesting young peasant girls, who still lingered." "They had all
pleasant voices." "We listened to them with much pleasure; there was so
much sweetness and feeling in the