Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-25

the fatalism SO distinguishable through
the ages in the Aryan and Semetic
races to which they surely owe their
origin. Neither are there wanting in
dividual instances of comparative pro-
gress and accomplishment under des-
perately ~unfavorable conditions among
this forlorn folk in Ireland. A Dublin
barrister is a gypsy. In Belfast a gypsy
holds a responsible position in a spin
ming mill; another is a caretaker of a
leading church; another W n a road
side inn near that city; while another
is a rich dealer in the famous and IN
savory quarter of old Smithfeld mar
ket. AT Cork a gypsy is responsibility
employed on the little railway running
to Blarney. AT Galway another one
keeps a lowly inn; another is an
angler ''coacher" for gentlemen
who come to fish salmon in the Corrib;
and throughout the west many Of the
drovers and graziers are gipsies. They
are also found employed in various ca
pacities, with 10 questions asked con
corning their origin, about the many
daily and weekly markets and at the
regular fairs of Ireland. In one Of the
midland counties q gip5y Is the agent
of a large estate; and to his credit no
eviction has ever occurred upon it.. At
many of the castles of the Irish nobil-
ity-and there are more splendid cas-
ties and desmesnes in Ireland than gen.
orally supposed-many are employed as
g~amekeepers, for which stealthy and
sylvan vocation they possess peculiar
qualifications; while, more power to
them for it! no hungry Gypsy can camp
near by without tasting the flavor of
milord's %pheasants or rabbits from the
always plethoric preserves. Some are
OyUnnrS nf iunntln n-parl in fha lorUnr
cities. Others are dealers IN the noted
Cushendal ponies OF the Antrim coast,
acting as middlemen between the
breeders and the Irish and English
markets. AT the annual Dublin horse
fairs, gipsies, quite unknown as such to
the management, breeders or the pub
lie, control a major portion of the heav-
Ter dealings, and practically inspire and
profit by all the valuable dickering and
jockeying for which this greatest of all
horse fairs affords such extraordinary
opportunity. All these, of course, hide
their despised origin, and are always
anything that is Irish, as varying ext
gencies and necessities may arise.
But with these wind-whipped gilgrims
OF the hedges who had so boisterously
welcomed me, and with their kind
throughout all Ireland, the very acme
of careless, listless vagabondism is
reached. If d~ickering and dukering
fortune telling) bring food enough for
the day, we'll and good. If not, then
they will beg it, or lie in a hedge by a
smoldering fire, if peat, bog wood, or
dead branches may be begged or pill
fered, and starve like Undertaking ami
mails until driven 10 some sort of exer-
tion. To be sure each one is a tinker;
each one weaves rude baskets of willow,
each one is dextrons 1T bench, tub and
broom making; pHt q thousand upon
thousands of honest folk would annually
starve in Ireland, uuder the present in
famous system of rlandlordism, il the
very skin were worked from ~strivers'
bones, we're 1t not for the saving power
OF American money, my not altogether
honest, and altogether vagabond, gypsy
friends, content themselves with the
least possible strain of moral and physi-
cal effort. So, to exist with them even
for a few days, it fell to my willing lot
to repienish their larder. A fat gypsy
larder means a great gypsy feast, A
feast is hardly a feast in Ireland, let
alone other countries without "a
drop to drown grief and lift
joy" Song dancing and ~uproarious roys-
tering were the consequence, And the
penalty, for punishment has as long legs
as JOY has short ones, was the descent
upon our camp of the crushing arm of
British law Ia the form Of q squad of