Death-bed -- Meg Merrilies one of their Clan -- the Author’s Visit to Yetholm -- the Gipsy Houses -- the Feud between them and the Shepherds -- Old Will Faa, the present King -- the Importance given him by Sir Walter Scott’s Writings -- his Smuggling and Fighting -- his Portrait by Sir Martin Arthur Shee -- General Review of their Numbers and Condition in these Kingdoms -- Camp near Nottingham, and Death of the Gipsy King -- Peculiarities of the whole Race -- their estimated Numbers in Europe -- Children sent to School in London -- Gipsy Wife reading her Bible to her Children -- Feelings naturally presented by the sight of a Gang -- Gipsies of New Forest -- Exertions of Mr. Crabbe and the Home Missionary Society -- Gipsies’ Advocate published -- Mrs. Southey’s Account of the New Forest Gipsies, and particularly the Stanley family -- Anecdote of George III. and the dying Gipsy -- Curious Accidental Meeting of the Author with two Ladies of Rank acting the Gipsies in Surrey 165 CHAPTER II. Nooks of the World, or a Peep into the Back Settlements of England -- Beauty and Repose of many such Places to the eye -- their Intellectual Slumber -- Wordsworth’s Description of a Farmer-lad -- the Books generally to be found in primitive Cottages -- Worst State of Morals in Districts partly Agricultural and partly Manufacturing -- Exertions of the Methodists -- the Effect of Political Pressure on the Working Class -- Necessity of sound Education -- the Effect of it in Scotland -- Rural Book Societies recommended -- An Example of the Effect of Reading on a Working Man -- Sordid Character of the People of some Property in obscure Hamlets -- A Physician living in a Dove-Cote -- Sketch of a Country Proprietor and his Family -- the Farmer Brothers -- the Land Agent’s account of a curious Dinner Scene at the Squire’s -- a worthy Example of the Old School of Country Gentlemen -- Education the great need of the Rural Districts 196 CHAPTER III.