They always painted his barn and outbuildings for him. They slaughtered designated pigs free of charge, hung the meat in the smokehouse, and didn't steal anything.
In earlier times pieces of his land had served as burial grounds for "slavecatchers" sent up from Kentucky to retrieve runaway slaves. They never returned to Kentucky with or without slaves.
One gathers the Gypsies knew they trod on truly sacred ground when they came to that place.
My father in law let a bunch of gypsies paint his barn too. Whatever they used washed off & took the galvanize off with it. The barns rusted immediately. Gypsies are scum. My brother in law sold some scrap metal to a bunch of gypsies who arrived at our place of business in a pink Lincoln. He let them have it at a fair price. The gypsies went behind his back to some of our employees & tried to get them to load up more than they had paid for. Gypsies deserve their reputation as scum.