When the fair began, the potter placed all the gipsy’s wares on a stall
with his own, and marked them with very high prices, but had he asked
three times as much he could have got it, for there were some rich folk
from the big houses who came to the fair, and they at once bought them
all up, declaring that such pots and jugs they had never seen. At this
the potter was well pleased, and found that he had made more money than
he had earned in many a long month past; but when people wanted him to
make them more like them, he was obliged to shake his head, and say,
“That he was very sorry, but he had had them coloured from afar, and he
did not know where he could now have them done.” Of the gipsy he saw
nothing more, though he looked for her everywhere during the three days
in which the fair lasted, but she was not to be seen, and when the fair
was over, and the other people were packing their carts and vans to go
on their way, he saw very many gipsies, and supposed that she had gone
with some of them, without giving him the chance of speaking to her
again.
Years went by, and the potter never heard anything more of the gipsy,
indeed he would have thought it had all been a dream if it had not been
for the little brown pot standing on the shelf. Sometimes he took it
up, and looked at it, and wondered when he saw how well and cleverly it
was made. He still laughed when he remembered what the gipsy had said
about leaving a charm in it, for though he himself had drunk out of it
many times, he never thought it had brought any spell on him.
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