It is told of one of the gitani, to whom a man child was born, that he brought the baby to a priest in Granada, and asked that it might be christened. The old padre was delighted to find such a sign of awakening to moral consciousness in one of the outlawed people, and willingly acquiesced.
“And what do you wish to call your son?” he asked.
“Tiger!” promptly responded the proud father.
“Tiger?” protested the priest. “But you cannot name a child after a wild beast.”
“That is his name,” persisted the father. “The Pope, he is called lion (Leo), my son shall be tiger.”
And “Tiger” he was duly christened.
THE COLUMBUS MEMORIAL, GRANADA.
IN THE COURT OF ORANGES, CORDOVA.