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قراءة كتاب A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language
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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.
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 | |
| EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION | 27 | |
| INTRODUCTION | 55 | |
| CHAPTER. | ||
| I. | CONTINENTAL GIPSIES | 69 |
| II. | ENGLISH GIPSIES | 90 |
| III. | SCOTTISH GIPSIES, DOWN TO THE YEAR 1715 | 98 |
| IV. | LINLITHGOWSHIRE GIPSIES | 123 |
| V. | FIFE AND STIRLINGSHIRE GIPSIES | 140 |
| VI. | TWEED-DALE AND CLYDESDALE GIPSIES | 185 |
| VII. | BORDER GIPSIES | 236 |
| VIII. | MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE CEREMONIES | 257 |
| IX. | LANGUAGE | 281 |
| X. | PRESENT CONDITION AND NUMBER OF THE GIPSIES IN SCOTLAND | 341 |
| DISQUISITION ON THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF GIPSYDOM | 371 | |
| INDEX | 543 | |
[1] The Contents of these Chapters will be found detailed in the Index, forming an epitome of the work, for reference, or studying the subject of the Gipsies.
Ever since entering Great Britain, about the year 1506, the Gipsies have been drawing into their body the blood of the ordinary inhabitants and conforming to their ways; and so prolific has the race been, that there cannot be less than 250,000 Gipsies of all castes, colours, characters, occupations, degrees of education, culture, and position in life, in the British Isles alone, and possibly double that number. There are many of the same race in the United States of America. Indeed, there have been Gipsies in America from nearly the first day of its settlement; for many of the race were banished to the