St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-23

they never fail of passing some portion
OF each summer upon the road. Their
tradlngS, or preparations for trading,
never cease. Nor does their fortune
telling; for the wife of Gypsy worth
quarter of a million-and l have the &C
Quaintance Of more than one of these
will as nimbly tell your fortune for sill
yer as would the most poyerty-stricken
Gypsy tinker / ever helped solder pan
Oh patch kettle.
Thus many return to the cities to
their actual habitatiOnS, which may
have stood idle the summer through.
Numbers trail along the highways until
their farm-homeS are reached, where,
If they be rented. as they usually are.
to some less thrifty farmer they have
reserved few months housing. Thou
sands wander into the Central South
for all winter, dickering or trading
there. Many return to their village
homes, over or alongside mammoth
barns.where winters Gypsy iockeying
is done. Great crowds of them, not yet
so well along as their brethren in gain
| ings, struggle into the cities. In the
| commOner quarters these turn their
| hands 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 the care of horses being fitted for the
next years events of the turf. Still
others, and these comprise the larger
| number, come trOOping into thousands
/ of little villages and countryside places
/ throughout the southern portion of
i Northern states and in the northern tier
/ Of Southern states, arriving as early as
/ the last October days. The movements
i of these provide genuine Gypsy study.
! Their arrival is hardly noticed, as
i they never come in large body, but in
i twos and threeS, and it is often weeks
4 before the little Gypsy community is at
/ it's best. The vanguard has quietly
/ rented some deserted roadside inn at
4 the outskirts of the village or some
i former spacious home long gone to de-
/ cay. This is always got fora song.
1 However much house room it may have,
4 ofaigreat ramShackle barn and outly-
/ ing sheds. For little time the Gipsies
/ seem to merely exist here. But every
day their women may be seen miles
| away, spinning in light buggieS over the
| autumn roads in every direction. Not
only are they found on the well tray
eled highways. but every grass-grOwn
| wagon road leading to secluded and re-
hottest farms has been hunted and
haunted. AT this home and that; here
tarrying under a pretense of admiring
some animal; there making trifling
purchase of vegetables and poultry;
! over yonder bartering for, but never
buying, grain and hay; again telling
fortune or twOif appealed to, but seldom
| urging such profitable vocation-in
little time these canniest and most in
dOmitable of all human detectives have
at their tongues end, for home refer
| ence, every possible item of informa-
| ton regarding the financial standing
and condition of every farmer for half a
1 county round.
Then of sudden some luckless
wight, under terror of an overdue note,
| or relentless mortgage, has sold his
cornfield Gin the shock" to the Gypsies.
AnOther's weather-browned stacks of
' hay have come into their possessio ion.