The tinkler-gypsies . HERES wee Tammie Twent)-, tlie auld Tinkler bodie,Comes here twice a year wi his creels an his cuddy ;\Vi Nancy, his wife, sae gudgy and duddy,Ils hard to say whilk is the queerest auld bodie. From Wee Tammie Twenty in The Gaberlunzies Wallet. In this Galloway of ours it is interesting totake stock of the various types of mankind onemeets there. A clever, observant Aberdonianonce remarked at a public dinner in Gallowaythat he had been struck by the abnormalnumber of large and regular featured mengathered around the table. The remark wascompletely justified by the appearan
The tinkler-gypsies . HERES wee Tammie Twent)-, tlie auld Tinkler bodie,Comes here twice a year wi his creels an his cuddy ;\Vi Nancy, his wife, sae gudgy and duddy,Ils hard to say whilk is the queerest auld bodie. From Wee Tammie Twenty in The Gaberlunzies Wallet. In this Galloway of ours it is interesting totake stock of the various types of mankind onemeets there. A clever, observant Aberdonianonce remarked at a public dinner in Gallowaythat he had been struck by the abnormalnumber of large and regular featured mengathered around the table. The remark wascompletely justified by the appearance of theguests. At a Tinkler camp where there is somuch that is interesting, if one has only theknowledge to assess things at their proper value,one must not omit to take stock of the typesone sees there. The Marshalls are interestingas types of the Romani-speaking Gypsies, andpossibly of the Picts. But even the swarthy,short, thick-set William Marshall, the presenthead of the remnants of the Marshall gang, is. 486 The Tiiikkr-Gypsies. not, in our opinion, nearly so striking or sointeresting a type as that of his partner inhfe, who is an ONeil. Arriving early onemorning at an encampment of Marshalls,we found Katie ONeil or Marshall bus)-dressing a little grandchild with his scantygarments. The old Tinkler woman is black-haired, squat, and swarthy in complexion, witha tinge of red in it. There is a look, wiped allover her face, that gives one the impressionshe is labouring under a constant grievanceagainst society. This same look is common toethers of her own lot, and still it does not, sofar as we are aware, imply that they are cross-grained. On the contrary, we have alwaysfound them most civil and polite. To oursurprise, the skin on the body of the grand-child was almost as dark as one would expectto see on a Mongolian child. Unfortunatelythe camera cant produce colour, but the chiklis still alive and its colour will bear out what ishere recorded. The Irish Tinklers are saida
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