Gipsy Life Being An Account Of Our Gipsies And Their Children W
Chapter 5
THE SAD CONDITION OF THE GIPSIES, WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR IMPROVEMENT.
Gipsy Beauty and Songsters 237 Gipsy Poetry 239 Smart and Crofton 239 A Little Gipsy Girl's Letter 242 Scotch Gipsies 243 Gipsy Trickery 244 My Visit to the Gipsies at Kensal Green 248 Fortune-telling and other Sins 249 Wretched Condition of the Gipsies 254 Hungarian Gipsies 259 Visit to Cherry Island 260 The Cleanliness and Food of the Gipsies 262 A Gipsy Woman's Opinion upon Religion 264 Gipsy Faithfulness and Fidelity 264 A Visit to Hackney Marshes 266 Sickness among the Gipsies 270 A Gipsy Woman's Funeral 271 Gipsies and the Workhouse 274 Education of the Gipsy Children Sixty Years ago 274 Mission Work among the Gipsies 275 Gipsy Children upon Turnham Green and Wandsworth Common 276 Sad Condition of the Gipsy Children 277 The Hardships of the Gipsy Women 281 Efforts put forth in Hungary and other Countries 282 Things made by the Gipsies 284 Pity for the Gipsies 285 What the State has done for the Thugs 286 The Remedy 287 My Reasons for Government Interference 289
Illustrations.
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Frontispiece. Among the Gipsy Children.
A Gipsy Beauty 1 A Gentleman Gipsy's Tent and his dog "Grab" 42 A Gipsy's Home for Man and Wife and Six Children 48 Gipsies Camping among the Heath 66 Gipsy Quarters, Mary Place 76 A Farmer's Pig that does not like a Gipsy's Tent 96 Gipsies' Winter Quarters, Latimer Road 108 A Gipsy Tent for Two Men, their Wives, and Eleven 118 Children, and in which "Deliverance" was born A Gipsy Knife Grinder's Home 122 A Gipsy Girl Washing Clothes 132 A Respectable Gipsy and his Family "on the Road" 170 A Bachelor Gipsy's Bed-room 174 A Gipsy's Van, near Notting Hill 192 A Fortune-telling Gipsy enjoying her Pipe 222 Inside a Christian Gipsy's Van--Mrs. Simpson's 228 Inside a Gipsy Fortune-teller's Van 236 Gipsy Fortune tellers Cooking their Evening Meal 248 Outside a Christian Gipsy's Van 272 Four Little Gipsies sitting for the Artist 277 A Top Bed-room in a Gipsy's Van 281
[Picture: A Gipsy beauty who can neither read nor write]