Works in Baudry's Edition Volume 4; -The Gipsy - A Tale (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ... could see nothing till he was nearly upon the pit. Then, however, his disappointment was not small to find the usual relics of a gipsy resting-placc, hut nothing else. A few rags, a leaf of an old hlack-letter book, feathers of many birds, and fur of more than one sort of beast, several charred spots, and a large stick or two, were to he seen upon the ground; but nothing else met the eye in any direction, and Manners paused for a moment to lay out what was to be done next.. "Go back for a hundred yards," he said, at length turningto his servant; "and then make a slow circle at that distance, quite round this pit, seeing whether you can find fresh footmarks in any direction." The servant obeyed, and in a few minutes exclaimed, "Here area great many, sir, along this road, which seems to go down the other side of the hill. Horses' feet, too, and eart-wheels quite fresh l" F' Go on quite round," rejoined his master. " What do you find more?" " Here are a good many scattered fo'otmarks in this direction, sir," replied the man, when he had arrived at a spot situated exactly between Manners and the little tumulus; " but they do not end in any particular way that I can see." Manners rode up, but the footprints were turned in many directions, and were of various sizes, some seemingly fresh, and some effaced by others. Nothing, therefore, could be discovered from the traces on that particular spot; but as Colonel Manners had every reason for believing that his friend musthaye approached the gipsy encampment from that side, he took the pains of dismounting and tracing the different steps some way upon each of thesevera-l paths in which they led. It was in "vain, howev...