The Osceola times., 1886-11-20

For classification these NAV be l,nov,
as uiekerers and dukkerers. Dickerer,
snould be kept in mind as all that largf
class OF English-speaking gypsies who
continue the life of the tent and ths
road. Dukkerers are the much large,
class IN number who have been swal
iowed up in the innumerable lanes.
aIeys' ana attics of our great cities, and
who subsist by fortune-tell no, pretty
deceptions, and all manner of nrgler
..ihg dla1Ierle; though n gooily number.
II must be admitted, earn honest liyeli.
moods IN the trades as tinkers. boStlers
oltu ana dog fanciers, and venders of
petty wares. "
Inc former-traveling, as they nearly
always do, in the remote country dis.
'rictS and rarely ever appearing near
cltes or in communities where their ar
ri'al IN caravans as gypsics would excite
comment - escape that observation
Whlch would result in their coming IN.
uer Official or newspaper surveillance,
ana yet venture to say it would come
lrue' could the test be made, that no
summer season passes where every
rroSS-road village or town of from ffty
70 tyc hundred inhabitants in the limited
states and Canada has not had its an.
nual visits from genuine gypsies and
their picturesque encampments. When
ihls is considered their very great and
increasing numbers may be more easily
comprehendcd. But the latter-those
whom viii call the duhkcrers, or CITY
gypSles-comprisc what seem to b. to
the casual observer merely the fac end
OF all foreign peoples Among your
poor Germans You will find many, very
many, zlegeuners; among your po1i
French, the bohemians, as the French
name them; among your poor Portu.
gnese, the siganos; among Your p1or
Hungarans, the zincali; among youI
poor Dutch, the heydencn; among yoUr
countless Italians, almost one-halI
genuine, are zingari; among your poor
Spanish the gitanos; and so on through
every ioreign-speaking people a vas
and silent number who hide their true
lineage in the everyday language they
speak, and who are ever unknown, az
gyps'es, to neighbors and fellows who
speak the same mother tongue.
The proportion Of these who are gyp
pies is astounding. During this month.
both in the city of New York and Bos
ton, in certain quarters made the fol
lowing tests; In a stroll of three hours
duration in those cities, among thos,
with whom spoke. indubitablc evi
dences were given me that in Boston Ii
per cent. and in New York "a per cent
wele gypsies. Nor were these testi
made in gypsy quarters. The fact must f.
be constantly borne in mind that there
are no gypsy quarters or neighborhoodsi |
for the gypsy etornally conceals his lin
cage. The tests were made where no |
knowledge appeared TO exist among
these foreign populations that any gyp' |
lies were living among them
Something Ike this will hold true in .
all our great cities. 1t would be a faif j
,urmse that every bird fancier you
meet is a gypsy. More organ-grinders
are, than are not gypsies. You call
them Italians. They may have been
hbln III IldINs sun lHtl dlt ~ lotbor
Every other professional hostler is
gypsy. The harpist she with the tam
jourInc, he with the hurdygurdy, is
most likely a gypsy. The Punch and
Judy men are nearly all gypsies.
Many circus performers are gypslcs.
n the great ballets there are gypsy girls
The managers neither
snow il or care; but they are so. Every
mixer on earth is a gypsy. The rat
.atchcr, the horsc-tamcr, the bird
rainer, is nearly always a gypsy. He
Who travels from door to door selling
mall wares and he who hawks with the
,razcn voice are not Ike the Polish
LEWIS so often as YOU think them, but |
,vpsics first and forever. All these and |
more of the swarthy kind. |
Who reycl in yellow head-gear red
ashes and bandkerchiefs, and great
gold ear and finger rings, are gypsies.
ind they viii st beside YOU for hours
md lie about it with the sweetness and
crcnity of a beautiful Rue june sky
EdJrr L. HdtcHaq, III Chicago Neos.
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