The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-20
ALAZY GYPs LIFE.
enc Of the Norwood Bard Unbosoms
Himself to a Reporter.


listened 70 the humming of the locust and
the rlpuling of the brook, and INDUCED in
1ozv reveries until the touch OF nature that
made him at the moment kin moved the
e,vpsv's black eve to moisten his sharp,
Iaen, suspicious glance, moved its tongue
N throw down the guards to speech and
tbe strange wild heart to tell some Of its
He was one of band that has been
canning on the Philadelphia, Darby and
Chester turnpike. half mile above Nor
II,1od f1r many DAYS f1e had wandered
~, Iare from New York, keeping under he
swallows as they a the gvpsies make
their Jvsv together southwark in the fall.
Te 1vas about TO deca D With lis party and
1re,d hi. vay on to Wilmington, Baltimore,
washington and the Carolinas for the
,yinfer. Every inch of the roads lie knew
nv dav or night. Nine Of the painted
vac ms thst terrify childhood and revive
warns If kidnappers started on yesterday.
Most of tile r many folk were respectfully
5-oesed and their children were neat and
clean.
"Obl nv heavensm the gypsy groaned as
be rolled over suddenly on his back on the
grass. "Ive got the dumb chllls," and he
e,roa ed and grunted worse than C4 ar.
"Tbe fogs settle down on this nat
pIace at light and that's the reason we are
eating out of here. l lied right out there
in the sun with my coat butJoAed up thlS
morning and couldn't get warm. let EN-
wear off; all doctor would DO would De
to give me a little quinlne.
@Who is our chief or queenP
"Hain't got no chief; every man is his
own ch ief. There ain'C nothing over me
Init The law. The talk about great Or
gauization Of gypsies is fake. There amt
no queen"
"bidu't Won ever hear of the Indiana
Queen Of all the gypsies|
Don't know anything about her. None
Of The bands do. Guess IS fake" AS
the gvpsy talked his two children lolled
over him on the grass, and Low and then
he would stop t. say: Get down off tina,
most. Viola Get down, now If you
don't get down I'll beat you,n and the
laughing little biackeyed gypsies, who took
the "pl be It you" only III kindly sense,
would get down aud Immediately begin to
twist the lams dogs tail or do some other
mischief.
VACATION ALL THE TINE.
your city capitalists" said the gypsy.
go and camp ut for a few weeks i'll the
summer in one little place. We live their
vacations II the time"
"If you had your choice between a big
mansion on Walnut street, Philadelphia,
and your present home, which would you
taker
"rd rather travel about and get the fresh
air fresh water, fresh county food. That
water ON the reservoirs in the city,
where people throw babies In, amt fit to
drink The finest springs we come across
are at Alispl ms. in Baltimore"
"As you go along do you ever engage to
DO a days harvesting for a farmer9
No; l never did hard days work in
my life responded the gypst, aud 1t evil
denty gave him pleasure 70 say SO.
Does your wife ever do washing or any
works" was asked in dubious manner.
''She some times gives out washin' TO
colored women or Irish women. She never
does do v asIin'."
THE RoMANY SOMETIMES ovERREACHED.
did you ever get stuck in a horse
trade"
YES I've met men that knowed more
about horses than me. l do something in
horses, though / get an old, worn out city
horse and take him along with me until he
picks : 2. 1t costs nothin' but the rest t.
cure him, and then ! trade him off for
another Dl oken-dOWn street car horse at the
next town We don't have to steal no
chic ens to nlane a living. That's another
fake
You have some chickens of your own
under the wagon there!"
Yes. they're bantams.u
''Ihen do you have cock fight once in a
whiIe?'
Yes We often win SIS or So"
How many fcrtune-tellers have your
Two; but there amt as much money
made at fortune telling as there used to be.
The giddy girls d 1nt come like they did te
or twelve years ago TO hear about their
lovers. There's too many MEDIUMS and the
like in your cities tor 'em to go to-"
"Heigh, no." called huckstar from the
pike, "do you want any potatoesp
why, the women amt at home, called
back the gypsy. of they were here they
might take some OFF you, G arlev."
THEY GET INTO FIGHTS SOMETIMES.
''Do you ever get into fights!" asked the
reporter.
Sometimes just ike you do IN the city, "
said the Romany man. "Some bands Of
gypsies hate other bands and 1t isn't safe for
them to me,t.n
IT. ainst the law to carry revolvers, -
limited the reporter, looking at a suspicious
bulge Oh the gyp's hip-pockst; "but many
peorle do it all the same"
"Yes," he replied quickly. There was a
man along here yesterday. | ask him if
he wanted to trade horse. He insulted
lne and pulled out revolver to show me-
l told him to get out of his wagon and I'd
put that revolver in his mouth. / co Id
have had him arrested. but didn't want to
make fuss with the smart Aleck.n
wi here do you bury one of the band
when he dies?n
Il had child to die last wiate~. It was
buried at Washington. That's another
fake they have on us about buryin' down
by the lonely willows. 1 tell ycu it's a
shame he way they bury colored people
down in Virginia and Carolina. They dig
holes anywhere aud no deeper than my
arm and II place where the hogs are run
ming ar und loose" The gypsy spoke half
the time in tones Of commiserablon for near
y every class of people Tut his own
Had yon any ceremony when your child
was buriedr'
Catholic he answered.
ANY Protestauts in Y ur bandw
Yes. good ma V are ProteStants.
DO you b .lieve IN hell."
Don't know nothing about that. Sir
Some say there is heaven. he'll and purga-
tory, but don't know nothing about it."
DO you lave any musicians in camp2o
Yes. some Of them play the fiddle and
banjo"
Did you ever have any desire to be a
great musician, an Ole Bull, to go up before
great audience and make a speech, or to
be President of the United States?'
Never thought nothing about them
things"
Would you like to know how to read
and write9"
oh, I'd give the world to that" he said
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