The tinkler-gypsies . time when they usually take to livingin houses. 4. During these two months arrangementsmight also be made to give facilities for grown-up Tinkler lads and lasses to learn some simpletrade that could be turned to profit when they ^The so-calleJ German Gypsies had an ideal Gypsies lay all round \vith their feet in the centre, in which?direction the wooden floor sloped downwards. 364 The Tinkler-Gypsies. are moving about. (Note.—Their principalcallings, making and making of tincans, have fallen on evil times, and surely it isnot impossible to find
The tinkler-gypsies . time when they usually take to livingin houses. 4. During these two months arrangementsmight also be made to give facilities for grown-up Tinkler lads and lasses to learn some simpletrade that could be turned to profit when they ^The so-calleJ German Gypsies had an ideal Gypsies lay all round \vith their feet in the centre, in which?direction the wooden floor sloped downwards. 364 The Tinkler-Gypsies. are moving about. (Note.—Their principalcallings, making and making of tincans, have fallen on evil times, and surely it isnot impossible to find some other usefulindustry to which they might now, with profit,be taught to turn their hand.) 5. Regular visitation by pupil teachers,Childrens League of Pity officers, and tactfulBible readers and such like. (I italicise theword tactful because the Tinklers are not over-religious, and a prosy Bible reader or a prosyparson would simply serve as a butt for theTinklers ridicule, and make religion a laughing-stock.). CHAPTER IX Genls, Ill have title jin (you know) that when youthai is inandy (speak to me) you rakker (talk to) a reglarfly old beiver (woman). A Tinkler woman, from The Gypsies,by C. G. Leland. We do not want your money, sir, screamed thewoman after me ; we have plenty of money. Give usGod ! Give us God I Yes, your haner, said the man; give us God !we do not want money. Irisli Tinklers, from Wild Wales,by George Borrow. A Modern Gvpsy Folk-tale Teller. ^>: LD grannie, who often looks in totell me a Gypsy folk-tale, is quite aremarkable woman. Her name, shesays, with a vigorous rounded accentpleasant to hear, is Mary MacMillanor Camell. She is a widow of some75 years of age—her partner, a Crimean veteran,having died about a year ago. Politeness is grannies weakness. I humblycrave yer honours pardon, she said, curtseyinglow, but a gentleman was kind eneuch to sayye had been tellin him ye hadna seen granniefor some time, an had been askin for her
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