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ROMANITSHELS’,
DIDAKAIS’
AND
FOLK-LORE
GAZETTE.
TINKERS,
TRAVELLERS,
CfAWJOS,
SHOW-FOLKI
AND
POSH-RATS.
Reflecting
also
the
opinions
of
m
SONGS
OF
THE
OPEN
ROAD.
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THE
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AND
FOLK-LORE
GAZETTE
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7
DIDAKAIS’
AND
FOLK-LORE
GAZETTE
Reflecting
also
the
opinions
of
TINKERS,
TRAVELLERS,
GAWJOS,
SHOW-FOLKI
AND
POSH-RATS.
THE
GYPSY
GIRL
AND
THE
NIGHTINGALE.
The
sleeping
flowers
breathed
perfumes
of
delight,
seemed
tranced
with ecstasy
Tranced
by
a
nightingale’s
wild
melody
That
thrilled
its
passion
through
the
fragrant
night:
Rhona,
just
taught
by
me
to
read
and
write,
'
s
/
Stole
from
the
tents
to
carve
upon
a
tree
air
-/,
•
The
summer
1
Strange
signs
strange
cryptic
words.
What
could
they
be?
followed
watched
her
in
the
moonbeams
bright.
—
—
Her
Romany
“
knife
moved
glittering
all
night
long.
?
What
are
you
strivirg
there,
minaw,
to
spell
”
She
hoped
to
capture
that
divinest
song
Not
Keats,
not
Swinburne’s
Self
could
syllable
1
Theodore
Watts-Dunton.
—
1
34
Romanitshels
Didakais
and
Folk-Lore
Gazette
.
A
DESCRIPTION
OF
SCOTTISH
TINKERS
FIFTY
YEARS
AGO
The
following
account
is
taken
from
James
T.
Calder’s
“
History
of
Caithness,
Glasgow,
1861,
pp.
39-40:
“Within
the
last
few
years
the
county
has
been
very
much
infested
by
tinkers,
and
their
number
seems
to
be
greatly
on
the
increase.
There
are,
between
young
and
old,
it
is
said,
nearly
a
hundred
and
forty
of
them
in
Caithness,
composed
of
different
bands
or
tribes,
named
the
Macfees,
the
Newlands,
the
Johnstones,
and
the
Williamsons.
They
have no
particular
place
of
abode,
but
roam
about
through
the
various
parishes,
following
the
profession
of
tinsmiths,
but
subsisting
in
a
great
measure
by
begging
and
stealing.
They
lie
out
all
the
year
round,
even
in
the
A
frequent
haunt
of
theirs
in
the
winter
season
is
the
links
of
roughest
weather
place
Diinnet,
which
abounds
with
sand
hillocks
covered
with
long
bent.
Another
village
to
which
they
betake
themselves
for
shelter
from
the
storm
is
a
cave near
the
disposal
of
their
What
money
they
acquire
by
the
of
Brough,
in
the
same
parish.
in
drink
and
their
orgies
never
terminate
without
a
tinware
they
commonly
spend
In
this
respect,
when
inflamed
by
liquor,
quarrel,
and
a
regular
fight
by
both
sexes.
-
they
very
much
resemble
the
lower
orders
of
the
Irish.
From
their
personal
appeal
Some
of
them
have
all
the
charac-
ance,
they
would
seem
to
be
of
a
mixed
race.
viz.,
very
brown
complexions,
dark
hair
and
eyes;
teristics
of
the
genuine
gipsy
Saxon
while
others
have
fair
complexions,
with
red
hair
and
blue
eyes,
indicative
of
a
find
it
or
Gothic
origin.
They
have
a
patois
of
their
own,
which
they
use
when
they
tone,
which
is
convenient
to
do
so;
but
they
all
speak
the
English
with
a
whining
that
particularly
marked
when
they
beg;
and
so
importunate
are
they
as beggars,
food
or
money.
They
they
will
not
leave
any
house
they
enter
until
they
get
either
thieving,
are
a
regular
pest
and
scourge
to
the
community
and
what
with
begging,
and
occasional
maintenance
in
prison,
they
cost
the
county
a
very
considerable
sum
;
—
;
annually.”
It
is
account
with
the
notices
of
North
of
Scotland
Gypsies
which
are
reproduced
in
the
Old
Series
of
the
“
Gypsy
Lore
Journal,
Vol.
One
of
these
is
by
Hugh
Miller,
who
describes
his
encounter
pp.
59-62
and
p.
128.
a
with
a
band
of
Cromarty
tinkers,
ninety
years
ago.
1
hey
were
then
inhabiting
gipsy
cave
near
Cromarty.
“They
were
a
savage
party,
with
a
good
deal
of
the
true
apparently
Britis
blood
in
them,
but
not
without
mixture
of
a
broken-down
class of
There
were
two
things
descent
and
one
of
their
women
was
purely
Irish.
sma
that
used
to
strike
me
as
peculiar
among
these
gipsies
a
Hindu
type
of
head,
medial
me,
of
size,
but
with
a
considerable
fulness
of
forehead,
especially
along
the
comparison
in
the
region,
as
the
phrenologist
would
perhaps
say,
of
individuality
and
in
squatting
be
ore
and
a
singular
posture
assumed
by
the
elderly
females
of
the
tribe
the
c
in
their
fires,
in
which
the
elbow
rested
on
the
knees
brought
close
together,
Mexican
on
the
palms,
and
the
entire
figure
(somewhat
resembling
in
attitude
a
some
of
the
more
mummy)
assumed
an
outlandish
appearance,
that
reminded
me
of
The
peculiar
type
of
heat
was
grotesque
sculptures
of
Egypt
and
Hindustan.
the
sett
ei
derived,
I
doubt
not,
from
an
ancestry
originally
different
from
that
of
—
unlike
any
nor
is
it
impossible
that
the
peculiar
position
races
of
the
country
er
Hugh
have
ever
seen
Scottish
females
assume
was
also
of
foreign
origin.
ca
vt
again
remarked
this
Oriental
type
on
the
occasion
of
another
visit
to
the
same
'l
e
“
On
a
couch
of
he
had
gone
in
order
to
witness
a
tinker
wedding.
whither
brunet
e,
fern
sat
evidently
the
central
figure
of
the
group,
a
young,
sparkling-eyed
more
than
ordinarily
marked
by
the
Hindu
peculiarities
of
head
and
feature,
an
wit
a
attended
by
a
savage-looking
fellow
of
about
twenty,
dark
as
a
mulatto,
and
interesting
to
,
compare
this
•>
.
;
—
.
,
;
—
i
t
.
1
Romani
tshels*,
Didakais
and
Folk-Lore
fl
Gazette.
35
WaCk
3S
je
1
hanginS
down
to
h
“
e es ant
^
clustering
y
'£V
These
were,
.
ascertained,
the
bride
and
bridegroom."
8
I
era
refe
red
to
(“Gypsy
Lor
«
Journal,”
Old
Series,
Vol.
III.,
D
1281
^
es
Poetically
no
indication
of
an
Oriental
*7?'
°
“
In
the
North
of
Scotland
type.
f/
C
kindr,
ed
with
the
clans,
and
are
in
many
cases
real
descendants
of
Hk-hlandfre
I,ttle
need
10
the
North
to
,ook
to
India
as
the
origin
of
these
s
P
e
k
ure
Gaelic,
and
have
the
physiognomy
of
the
P,
natives
'
Ca
f
them
lv
Macneills
Macalisters,
Williamsons,
and
Stewarts
here
are
two
fani,l,es
of
Stewart,
one
of
which
looks
down
upon
the
other
ac
n
*,
I
anstocrabc,*
and
as
being
only
pretenders
to
the
8
name.
Besides
these,
the
hll
theie
are
often
tribes
from
England
that
pay
a
flying
visit
and
others
8
r,g,nal
C0Untry
11
would
be
difficu,t
to
determine
”
This
account
’was
written
?
8
il°
tbese
three
accounts
that
by
Hugh
Miller,
the
earliest
in
date,
points
most
°f
strongly
to
a
survival
of
real
Gypsy
blood
among
the
tinkers
of
the
North
of
Scotland.
about
h.
a
abou^his
cheeks
and
neck.
,
f
ib
'
e
ha
'
'
Lr
.
rr
-
^
We
'
'
^
^
-
f
O
’
'
^
..
.
David
MacRitchib.
THE
“DIRTY”
GYPSY.
natural
passion
for
journeying.
The
first
thing
to
be
borne
in
mind
in
dealing
with
the
Gypsy
is
that
he
is
a
nomad,
that
his
primary
instinct
is
to
travel,
and
that
he
is
on
that
account
an
entirely
different
being
to
ourselves,
who
should
be
judged
from
a
different
standard.
In
every
particular
other
than
this
imperative
necessity
for
freedom
and
the
life
of
the
open
road,
he
is
the
same.
That
the
Gypsy
is
immoral
is
a
grave
perversion
of
the
truth,
and
it
can
be
avowed
with
the
utmost
certainty
by
all
who
know
these
nomads
intimately
that
no
more
moral
class
exists.
So
far
as
disease
is
concerned
the
imputation
brought
against
the
Gypsy,
is
another
laughable
fallacy;
disease
is
a
rara
avis
immediately
attributable
to
his
mode
of
life.
enemy
of
man,
that
is,
normal
man.
And
so
while
the
Renaissance
in
Folk-
Lore
goes
on
apace,
not
to
mention
actual
Gypsy-lore,
the
position
of
the
Romani
chel
remains
unaltered;
he
is
regarded
as
a
marauding
robber,
wholly
without
morals
of
any
kind,
as
one
who
lives
the
life
of
a
savage,
in
fine,
something
not
far
short
of
a
cannibal.
At
best
he
is
a
filthy
leper
who
never
washes,
and
suffers
from
half
the
diseases
to
which
flesh
is
heir.
Therefore
he
is
hunted
from
pillar
to
post,
and
made
to
be
even
more
of
a
wanderer
than
is
compatible
with
his
own
primeval
Much
as
we
like
to
think
to
the
contrary,
the
recent
eviction
of
Gypsies
from
the
neighbourhood
of
Llanelly
makes
it
all
too
clear
that
the
Gypsy
is
still
regarded
as
being
the

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