A History of the Gipsies: With Specimens of the Gipsy Language.

A History of the Gipsies: With Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson, edited, with Preface, Introduction, and Notes, and a Disquisition on the Past, Present and Future of Gipsydom, by James Simson.

“Hast thou not noted on the bye way-side,
Where aged saughs lean o’er the lazy tide,
A vagrant crew, far straggled through the glade,
With trifles busied, or in slumber laid;
Their children lolling round them on the grass,
Or pestering with their sports the patient ass!
The wrinkled beldame ...