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Title: The tinkler-gypsies
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: McCormick, Andrew
Subjects: Romanies
Publisher: Dumfries : J. Maxwell & Son Edinburgh Glascow, John Menzies & Co., Ltd. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of laughter and cries of Guten Mo7-ge?i Fraidein-latcho divvus RcmannoRye ta shukar bakt ! Of course, their visit produced the usualfitrore. Doors were bolted, and cannie shop-keepers either blocked the entrance to theirshops with their own manly forms, or, deemingdiscretion the better part of valour, put the keyof the door in their pocket, and stood on thefootpath feigning that they had no connectionwith the shop ! Stories were at once set afloatand exaggerated. Here it was that a Gypsywoman had sprung at a man and scratched hisface, but on inquiry the incident out of whichthe story had been exaggerated reflected notthe slightest discredit on the Gypsy woman.Indeed, it was manufactured out of the simplestof good-natured joking. In another case a.shop, which the shopkeeper assures me theGypsies had never entered, was said to havebeen completely ransacked. A Gypsy woman was also said to have gotthe better of a greengrocer, into whose shop shehad gone to buy vegetables. The greengrocer
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lield up a cabbage, and the Gypsy womananswered Neiu, iiein, whereupon the shop-keeper laid down nine cabbages, and the Gvpsywoman quickly whisked them into her mofiginggum (begging bag), and putting down a pennydeparted proud of her bargain. Unfortunatelywhen I chaffed Marono about her cleverness ingetting the nine cabbages for a penny, she saidshe only regretted it was not true. There musthave been some real cases of depredation orcomplaints could hardly have been so numerous,but the above prove th:it there were many casesof giving a dog a bad name and you may hanghim. There are stories also about their actingrudely and roughly to people who refused themalms, but it is difficult to ascertain the precisefacts in each cas?. Whilst watching the German Gypsies begging along a street agentleman remarked, Look at them ; theytake every door except the public-houses ! Assuming, however, for argument that every-thing is true that has been alleged againstthem in the newspapers, are our own ac

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