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Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up
their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums
they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet. A heavy gypsy
with an untamed beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquiades,
put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder
of the learned alchemists of Macedonia. He went from house to house dragging
two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots, pans, tongs, and braziers
tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and
screws trying to emerge, and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared
from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent
confusion behind Melquiades' magical irons.