The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-06

reveal almost enough material in quantity,
certainly enough in variety. to stock little
country store.
This stock in trade has not been picked up
at random. In the London Whltechapel
district there are great store houses of
travellers goods" Their owners. who l
find include wealthy gipsies, could not con-
tinue In business without the Rypsies' trade.
The goods handled are somewhat similar to
our American bargain counter" odds and
ends, especially in tinware, and metal
goods, hardware, crOckery. cheap oilcloths
and household nicknacks, with the
coarsest OF beads and gilded jew elry.
1t would be g revelation TO
ordinary English tradesmen to realize the
enormous quantities of stuff annually dis
posed of in this manner throughout Eng
land, Scotland and Wales. and the iuteg-
rity of these gypsy wanderers where they
ask and receive credit for their supplies as
they often do. Smaller travellers goods"
stores may be found near the Bull Ring In
Birmingham, where carts may be refilled in
the lazy journeyings; but small shipments
from time to time are forwarded by rail
from London.
have friends in the fruit and nut trade
In the Drury lane quarter of London who
have supplied gypsies in all parts of the
provinces for the past twenty years. Half
of this trade is done on credit, and the
ITulIor0Es dlt lUIOFln me luey uhNo u6NoT
lost a penny at the hands OF their thousands
of gypsy small customers. All these goods,
fruits and nuts are hawked in little villages
and sold at fairs and on market days. In
deed the English country fair Of to-day
would lose all its plctureslueness and most
of its attractions for younger people were
the petty gypsy booths and gypsy showmen
withdrawn.
About the middle of the century, when
he Not yVaa IL
rected against gypsios and all wandering
folk OF the road, came in force, we find Bor-
row lamenting that the gypsy had no
where to lay his head" The oppressive
measure undoubtedly sent America $4,000
English gipsies within period Of ten years.
Indeed. it almost extirpated gypsydom in
Great Britain. But the coming gypsy soon
saw a way to mend his fortunes. de took
out a license to become travelling mer-
chant. 1.-TWO and sixpence" gives MIN this
right for the period Of one year. He could
still remain gypsy In every other particular.
Insensibly and by degrees he actually be-
came the fellow whose vocation re orig
inally assumed in order to merely exist.
There gradually followed a system among
the wandei ers of providing gypsy ground'
on which to camp IN safety from the raids
of the mounted constabulary. Gypsies here
and there who had got toolng and could
be trusted, bought or leased bits OF waste
land, unused lanes, idle tract, at the out
skirts of cities and towns. or camping
rights in roomy old stable yards. These are
In turn suolet 70 arriving pilgrims at from
shilling down to l penny day. And
thus with London gypsies-whose haunts
ami WAYS in about London itself shall de-
scribe in my next-one can travel from
Lands End to John O'Groats house. or
London to OBJ u, and return. and never
upon the road by day, or underneath the
to or the va roof aud the stars at night.
be outside the comforting protection of
watchful British law
EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.