Their furniture seldom consists of more than an earthen pot, an iron pan, a spoon, a water-jug, a knife and sometimes a dish. If the father is a smith, which is most frequently the case, he has a pair of small hand-bellows, a stone anvil, a pair of pincers and a couple of hammers. Add to this a knapsack, a few rags for clothing, a tattered tent, formed of a piece of coarse woollen cloth, and this is a complete inventory. But if he is so fortunate as to possess besides these an old foundered horse, he puts the whole establishment on its back, and thus rambles from place to place. The wandering gipsy is generally clothed in rags, and the women are more remarkable, if possible, for their want of cleanliness than the men. Wrapped in their tattered garments, which scarcely suffice for decency, carrying their infants in a piece of cloth suspended from their shoulders, and driving before them the elder children, naked, or at most covered with a torn shirt, they visit in all their filth, particularly during fairs, the towns and villages, to dispose of the paltry produce of their labour, or rather under that pretext to exercise their skill in pilfering. Their stations are generally by the road side, where the naked children lie and beg; or by following travellers, by tumbling and by locking the wheels of carriages, they obtain a trifle or seize an opportunity of purloining something. Their usual occupation is making coarse iron articles. Some cut spoons, shovels and little troughs out of wood; others make brooms of twigs, weave baskets, and gather herbs, rushes, or juniper-berries. In this manner they contrive to gain a scanty subsistence, and if, after providing absolute necessaries, there is any surplus, it is expended in brandy of which they are very fond.