The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-06
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baskets, dried flowers and leaves. and their
far more odd and interesting owners.
Some of the wanderers had come
from as far north as Beauty, Scot
land, from away up in classic W ordsworth
land by the quiet English lakes, from off
southwest by the shore hooks Of Somerset
and Devonshire, aud even from St. Ives and
Penzance in Cornwall but most, from dick
ering and duckering in the midland and
western counties fairs AS if by some secret
understanding they had drifted together for
a bit of roadside reunion at the ed Of
these windswept moors, where few of the
constabulary come with their remorseless
summons of "move on, you gypsy dogs"
Returning to the great city from country
| tramp in Bucklnghamshire, by right of
rank and station as gorgio chal (gypsy's
friend) | had become one Of them in the
little FOSTERING, before their final abandon
ment Of the seasons wanderings by bios
| soming lane and road.
Camp was to be broken this very morn
| ing. The dark places of London would close
| upon the tawny crew, scattered in little
| groups and families, by night. 1t was
| absolutely they would never all meet
| again, even though separate families or
bands should again know the boundless joy
| of the springtime outgoing. And there is q
large and ample human regard, one for an
| other, in this community of roadside interest
| and companionship, which we of the
"civilized" thoughts and ways can never
! know.
Tinker Zeke was not alone in his mourr-
| full regret The camp " as rife with it, just
| as the landscape, sky and air were instinct
with she tender sadness Of the dying year.
| 1t seemed to me, nor was 1t all of seeming,
| that the fires themselves burned with less
| crackle and flame. Even the Sizing pots,
hanging from the grimy kettle sticks, boiled
| and blubbered in a minor hearthside tones.
| Over in the stunted copses of the moor
| the tethered donkeys st cd meekly silent,
| with bowed heads, or nibbled at the frosty
| grass as if in serious rumination. As the
| morning advanced goodwives sat by the
| tsnt mouths, or in the open van
| doors, in sober discussion with their hus-
| bands, or busted thems lives with the morn
ing meal less spry and clipper than is the
gypsy woman's way. Youths bringing wa
| ter from the stream, or returning to camp
| with fodder for the animals and dead moor
brushwood for the fires, did their work
| gloomily, and with none Of the summer
time whoop and halloo. Here aud there
were groops of the elder Cyl sy men, seated
on reversed buckets, van-thills, or leaning
| their backs against van-wheels, SIN King
their pipes with long, strong, Prospective
| puffs, and saying little, while that little was
| measured and reflective.
Old spae- wives puttered and bothered
t-queruo sly, uns eadier il tone, more r ST
less IN movement, and full OF that petulant
| resentment to change, so true and pathetic
q seal upon the over-ripe faculties II old
| age. GYPSY lassies, ever demure in the pres
ence of potent act or fact in their elders
but miracles OF winsome physical aud heart
free abandonment in joyous hours looked
twice their age in their long gowns and
faces And even the gypsy dogs, those rare,
sad-visaged, voicele,s cheats, whose pretense
of sodden ignorance out-gypsy the slyest
| hOmGnH themselves. sat ranged at deteren-
tial distances from the camp fires, the en-
bodlment of dreary dolefulness.
What was true Of this camO is equally
true of hundreds more IN England and
Thousands In our own country. From Oct.
l to the last Of November this concerted
movement Of gypsies from their wandering
merTipen OF life to the great cities, aud with
us. to the cities or southern states. is coz
stantlv going on Some begin t. fly from
extreme northern localities a month earlier.
Others wait with a dogged sort Of tenacity
unit fairly driven from the
country lanes by bowling Deem
Der storms. Here in England
there are important gypsy communities IN
Liverpool BirminR ham, Manchester aud
other provincial cities to which the rowing
bands concentrate for winter quarters; and
even the smaller manufacturing towns OF
! the northern English and southern Scottish
shlres have their regular x psy quarter.
But oil Of these together Will not equal