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Gipsy Life
Being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement

Gipsy Life Being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement

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What the State has done for the Thugs

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The Remedy

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My Reasons for Government Interference

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Illustrations.

 

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Frontispiece.  Among the Gipsy Children.

A Gipsy Beauty

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A Gentleman Gipsy’s Tent and his dog “Grab”

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A Gipsy’s Home for Man and Wife and Six Children

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Gipsies Camping among the Heath

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Gipsy Quarters, Mary Place

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A Farmer’s Pig that does not like a Gipsy’s Tent

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Gipsies’ Winter Quarters, Latimer Road

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A Gipsy Tent for Two Men, their Wives, and Eleven Children, and in which “Deliverance” was born

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A Gipsy Knife Grinder’s Home

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A Gipsy Girl Washing Clothes

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A Respectable Gipsy and his Family “on the Road”

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A Bachelor Gipsy’s Bed-room

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A Gipsy’s Van, near Notting Hill

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A Fortune-telling Gipsy enjoying her Pipe

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Inside a Christian Gipsy’s Van—Mrs. Simpson’s

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Inside a Gipsy Fortune-teller’s Van

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Gipsy Fortune tellers Cooking their Evening Meal

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Outside a Christian Gipsy’s Van

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Four Little Gipsies sitting for the Artist

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A Top Bed-room in a Gipsy’s Van

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A Gipsy beauty who can neither read nor write

Part I.—Rambles in Gipsydom.

The origin of the Gipsies, as to who they are; when they became regarded as a peculiar race of wandering, wastrel, ragamuffin vagabonds; the primary object they had in view in setting out upon their shuffling, skulking, sneaking, dark pilgrimage; whether they were driven at the point of the sword, or allured onwards by

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