It is probable that the celebrated cup of Djemschid, in Persian story, which showed on its surface all that passed in the world, owed its origin to these Chinese bottles.
[1] This chapter is reproduced, but with much addition, from one in my work entitled “The Gypsies,” published in Boston, 1881, by Houghton and Mifflin. London: Trübner & Co. The addition will be the most interesting portion to the folk-lorist. [↑]
[2] This song which, with its air, is very old in the United States, has been vulgarized by being turned into a ballad of ten little nigger boys. It is given in Mrs. Valentine’s Nursery Rhymes as “Indian boys.” [↑]
[3] It is not generally known that Sir H. A. Layard and Sir William Drake were the true revivers of the glass manufacture of Venice. [↑]
