The tinkler-gypsies . bitter cold —diddle diddle dum. All night were a-cryin—for a bit o bread babes hae got no mother—nor father— I should die but for my master standing by. i-S That typical open-road picture with the dearlittle fellow chattuig away with the cuddy andthe whole company smiling and unconscious oftheir sordid conditions, proves the infiniteelasticity of human nature. Luxury often killshappiness, and yet these poor unpampered folkscan smile delightfully whilst undergoing thedirest hardships. Robert Louis Stevenson, inhis Apology for Idlers, records a del
The tinkler-gypsies . bitter cold —diddle diddle dum. All night were a-cryin—for a bit o bread babes hae got no mother—nor father— I should die but for my master standing by. i-S That typical open-road picture with the dearlittle fellow chattuig away with the cuddy andthe whole company smiling and unconscious oftheir sordid conditions, proves the infiniteelasticity of human nature. Luxury often killshappiness, and yet these poor unpampered folkscan smile delightfully whilst undergoing thedirest hardships. Robert Louis Stevenson, inhis Apology for Idlers, records a delightfulincident about a ragged, barefoot boy runningdown the street after a marble with so jolly anair that he set every one he passed into a goodhiiuiour. Oh that we might all bear in mindthe pleading of the sightless eyes of that poorTinkler grannie and that triumphant smile onthe Tinklers faces 1 It would help each of usto be more cheerful and contented with his ownlot. If we who luxuriate wish to avert the. Perthshire and Argyueshire Tinkler?. (Stewarts and Campbells.) A. MCoiiiiick. ^--{^iMy^^\^^k Tinklers Redeefiiim^ Features. ^o:) natural growth of socialism we ought to bestirourselves by bestowing more in the shape ofcharity and legislation on poor folks such asthey. In conclusion, our feelings and wishes aboutBilly Marshall, the most notorious and note-worthy of the Tinklers, may best be givenexpression to in the equivocal language of hisown favourite toast : May neer waur be among us. And if we, who are both differently constitutedand differently circumstanced from the Tinklers,wish to break down the barrier of reserve whichprevents all improvement in the condition ofthese poor people, we must lay to heart the well-balanced judgment of our greatest analyst of character : ^? Tinkler-Gypsies. How simple they are, on a backgroundof our better qualities, as far as poverty canallow. But it keeps them closer to Naturethan we are; so they should be cared forcharitabl
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