Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-13

The musicians drew the most speeta-
tors, and among them the guitars or play
ers on the guzla were the best patroniZed
Accompanying themselves on their
strange instruments, they sang in gut
tural tones the songs OF their coun-
try, and they were well worth stopping to
hear.
The guzla used by these virtuosos of the
street has several strings stretched on a
long frame, and scraped with bow. There
is no risk OF the singers failing for want
Of notes, for they go In search Of them
high and low, as much III their heads as
in their chests.
One Of the singers-a huge fellow, yell
low OF skin and brown OF hair, holding
between his knees the guzla which looked
like cello grown thln-was singing
with much mimicry and gesture can
zonet, Of which the following is almost a
literal translation:
When gay the song comes ringing,
The song Of the gypsy girl.
Mark well the look she's fiuging
To help the words she's singing!
Or beware
OF the gypsy girl!
100 far away from her you stay.
A cd then her love-lit eyes grow tender
Ana meath their yelling lasheS say,
Come nearer, iOye-and III surrender"
When gay the song comes ringing,
The song of the gypsy girl.
Mark well The look she's tInging
To help the words she's singing!
or take care
OF the gypsy girl!
After this the singer with his wooden
bowl in his hand went round the ring and
made collection Of few cOppers. But
the take seemed to be rather poor, and he
returned To his place to soften his audi
doris with the second cOuplet OF his can
zOnet
When fun the gaze of her glorious eyes
Meets yours and all their wItchcraft lend her
Your heart she wins as her rightful prize,
She I'll keep it-and she'll ne'er surrender!
When gay the song comes ringing,
The song Of the gypsy girl,
Mark well the look she's Ringing,
To help the words she's singing!
Or beware
OF the gypsy girl!
a man from so to 90 was listening to the
Rypsy's song; but, being little sensible to
such poetical seductions, his purse had
hitherto remained unopened; and he was
about to move of when the young lady
by his side stopped him and said:
Father, have no money with me. VIII
you give that man something's
And that is why the guzlar received
four OF five kTeutzers which he would not
have had without the girls intervention.
Not that her father, who was very rich,
was mean enough 10 refuse aims to Il poor
foreigner, but simply because he was
never moved 1T human misery.
The father and daughter pas sed through
the crowd towards other booths Just as
noisy, while the guzlar player disap-
peared, probably 10 liquidate his re-
ceipts.
But all the open air artists, singers and
mOuntebanks. were not 50 freely patron
lzed. Among the most deserted were
two acrObats who were figuring away on
a platform with no spectators to encOur-
age them.
Above the stand was a sheet of canvas
in a very bad state OF repair, with por-
traits Of wild animals daubed on in dis
temper, in which in most fantastic out
line there could be seen lions, jackals,
hyenas, tigers, bears, etc, leaping and
dIsp0rting themselves in marYeloJsly
unreal landscapes. Behind was a tiny
arena, rallied OF with pieces of old canvas
which boosted so many holes Tor the eyes
Of the indiscreet to look through that they
must have seriously diminished the re-
ceipts. In front on one of the poles was
a dilapidated piece of plank as an apollo
KY for signbOard. On it these five words
were roughly written in charcoal: