Produced by Steven Gibbs, Harry Lamé and the Distributed Proofreaders Team at pgdp.net +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES | | | | Typographical transcriptions: | | italics in the original work are transcribed between underscores, | | as in _text_; | | small capitals in the original work have been transcribed in ALL | | CAPITALS; | | breves and macrons are represented as [)x] and [=x], respectively,| | in which the x can represent any letter; | | the oe-ligature is transcribed as [oe]. | | | | Footnotes have been moved to underneath the paragraph they belong | | to, and indented to distinguish them from the main body of the | | text. | | | | The tables have been split or otherwise re-arranged to fit the | | limited width. | | | | More transcriber's notes may be found at the end of this text. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ 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 there you may espy, And ripe young maiden with the glossy eye; Men in their prime, and striplings dark and dun, Scathed by the storm and freckled with the sun; Their swarthy hue and mantle's flowing fold, Bespeak the remnant of a race of old. Strange are their annals--list! and mark them well-- For thou hast much to hear and I to tell."--HOGG. NEW YORK: M. DOOLADY, 448 BROOME STREET. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON & MARSTON. 1866. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, BY JAMES SIMSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS.[1] PAGE EDITOR'S PREFACE 5