Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-01-12
RETURN OF THE GYPSlEs.
neckering with Unfortunate Farmers
laying by a Winters stock of Hay.

neckerfng with Unfortunate Farmer0
Laying by n Winters Stock of Hay.
Thus many return to the cities to then
actual ~habitations, which may have stood
tdle the summer through. Numbers trail
along the highways until their farm homes
are reached, where, if they be rented, n
they usually are TO some less thrifty far
mer, they have reserved q few months
housing. Thousands wander into the
central south for all winter dickering and
trading there. Many return to their viii
hge homes, over or alongside mammoth
barns, where q winters gypsy ~jockeying
b done. Great crowds of them, not yet
% well along as their brethren in gain.
tngs, straggle into the cities. In the COM
moner quarters these turn their hanos to
bird training, basket weaving, training
and trading in valuable cats and dogs,
while hundreds of gypsy youths secure
ready employment under gentlemen's
grooms, and particularly at he care Of
horses being fitted for the net years
events of the turf. Still othavs, and these
comprise the larger number, come troop.
ing into thousands of little villages and
countryside places throughout the SOUTH
srn portions of northern states and in tho
northern tier Of southern states, arriving
Is early as the last October days. The
movements OF these provide a genuine
gypsy study.
Their arrival is hardly noticed, as they
never come in q large body, but in twos
and threS, and it j, often weeks before
the little gypsy community is at its best.
The vanguard has quietly rented some
deserted roadside inn at the outskirts Of
the village, or some former spacious home
long gone to decay. This is always got
for a song. However much house room
II may have, it must invariably possess the
requisite of a great ramshackle barn and
sutlying sheds. For a little time the grp.
shes seem to merely exist here. But eve.y
dAy their women folk may lie Seen miles
away, spinning in light buggies over the
Aurumn roads in every direction. Not
only are they found on the well travelled
highways, but every grass grown wagon
road leading 10 secluded and remotest
farms has been hunted and haunted. At
this home and that; there tarrying I'M
der pretense of adniring some animal;
there making a trifng purchase of
vegetables and poultr, over yonder bar
tsring for, but never buying, grain and
by; again telling a fortune or two il
appealed to; but seldom urging such
profitable vocation-in a little time these
eanniest and most indomitable Of all hui
man detectives have at their tongues
a1d, for home reference, every possible
kem of information regarding the finan-
eial standing and condition Of every
farmer for half a county round.
Then of a sudden some luckless wight,
apder terror Of an overdue note or re-
kentless mortgage, has sold his cornfield
ain the shock to the gypsies. Another's
weather Drowned stacks Of hay have
come into their possession. Then begins,
and to continue the whole winter through,
. ceaseless procession of young stock,
horses and mules, toward the gypsies'
temporary domicile. Drunken farmer,
unfortunate farmer, thriftless farmer, in
oil dire lions, pays the penalties Of i'll
doing o, i'll luck to these superb jockeys,
Who, buying for pittances, and for
months selling at excellent prices or net
ct all, at their improvised market. make
large profits; and the sprinL finds them
ready for greedy city buyers with great
numbers of stock transformed from
dhaggy, ambling beasts TO animals Of
such splendid form and spirit as do even
city gypsy traders eyes good to look
upon. The amount of 1.-Two stock thus
gathered - every winter throughout the
country Is tremendous; the profits are
inconceivably great, and these wizards
of the stable must eventually largely con-
frol the entire horse trade of the country.
Edgar l.. Wakeman's Letter.