The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-08


The gypsy is q thorough and ire
claimable vagabond, but he has many
good points about him. His notions Of
honesty, especially when fowl or
horse is in question. do not exactly cor.
respond with our own. and he can not
be brought to understand the game
laws; but he compares iavorably IN most
OF these respects with the tramps and
bcggars, and even with the rustic Ia
borers and the lower classes in towns.
The road is literally his walk in life,
and he practices such trades as tinker
ing, chair-mending. cutting clothes
pegs, and the like, with assiduity and
industry. When the weather makes
out of-door life unbearable the gypsies
settle down after fashion, those who
have covered wagons, with the sight OF
which we are so familiar, halt with
them in some convenient spot and live
in small communities, others hire an
empty cottage and simply camp down
in it, requiring no furniture but the few
articles of bedding and cooking utensils
which served them in tents. But the
English Rommanies do not affect
town life; they keep strictly to their old
nomad traditions. Kirk Yetholm. in
Scotland. is the only place in the Brit
ish Isles where settled colony of gyp-
sizes exists, for even their haunts in the
west of London are deserted as the
summer comes round and the country
holds forth its irresistible charms.
Elsewhere, especially in Turkey and
the Danubian municipalities, there are
many villages inhabited entirely by
gypsies.
Strange to say these people are very
little understood, and among other fic-
tons in vogue concerning them, the
most popular one, that they have q
king, is totally without foundation. A
member of the tribe who has reached
an advanced age, and become the head
Of numerous family of children, grand
children and great-grandchildren, is Of
course, visited by them at any spot
where he or she may have settled down;
and as the travels of the clan are regu-
lated by tho seasons, fairs, markets and
SO on, the gatherings naturally become
periodical and greatly exercise the Gem
tile mind. OF the curiosities thus OK
cited the gypsies themselves are not
slow to take advantage, and the ancient
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wnon : 4auu " 'nIee nunorea' unaer
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