published a decree that every duellist was to have his head
cut off, and that head was to be set up on the scene of the
fight. The _veintiquatro_ got out of the difficulty like a
clever man. He had the head sawed off a statue of the king,
and set that up in a niche in the middle of the street in
which the murder had taken place. The king and all the
Sevillians thought this a very good joke. The street took
its name from the lamp held by the old woman, the only
witness of the incident. The above is the popular tradition.
Zuniga tells the story somewhat differently. However that
may be, a street called _Calle del Candilejo_ still exists
in Seville, and in that street there is a bust which is said
to be a portrait of Don Pedro. This bust, unfortunately, is
a modern production. During the seventeenth century the old
one had become very much defaced, and the municipality had
it replaced by that now to be seen.

**** _Rom_, husband. _Romi_, wife.

"There I stood in the middle of the room, laden with all her purchases,
and not knowing where I was to put them down. She tumbled them all onto
the floor, and threw her arms round my neck, saying:

"'I pay my debts, I pay my debts! That's the law of the _Cales_.'*

* _Calo_, feminine _calli_, plural _cales_. Literally
"black," the name the gipsies apply to themselves in their
own language.

"Ah, sir, that day! that day! When I think of it I forget what to-morrow