Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1911 — The Gipsy’s Right to Steal. [ARTICLE]

The Gipsy’s Right to Steal.

The Basque gipsies' variant of the Egyptian legend Is worth quoting: "During the flight into Egypt, Joseph, exhausted by the rapidity of the march as well as by the weight of the Child Jesus, entrusted him to a traveler who was following the same route. / The obliging traveler, however, to satisfy his rapacious instinct, stripped the child and returned him almost naked to Joseph. Jesus rebuked the thief gently, but in consideration of the service he bad just received granted to him and his descendants the right to take five sous at a time for an object of equivalent value. The simultaneously obliging and thievish traveler was an ancestor of whom, it appears, the modern gipsies boast— Gipsy Lore.