When he again saw his child, the mysterious sleep was unbroken. She came not to welcome him, but he put the pearl necklace about her beautiful throat, and she awoke, smiling.
"Oh! what a lovely necklace, papa," she cried.
"It is the first I have ever given thee, my darling," said the happy father, "but I hope it may not be the last. My pearl-casket is now empty, but I trust in God that I may fill it many times before I die."
[ORIGINAL.]
THE GIPSIES. [Footnote 174]
[Footnote 174: "A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language." By Walter Simson. Edited, with preface, introduction, and notes, and a disquisition on the past, present, and future of Glpsydom. By James Simson. 12mo, pp. 575. New York: M. Doolady. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston. 1866.]
About the beginning of the 15th century there appeared in Germany a strange mysterious people, such as had never been seen in Europe before;
A vagrant crew, far straggled through the glade,
With trifles busied, or in slumbers laid.