The tinkler-gypsies . after word I tested them within the presence of the Doctor, and to his greatsurprise he learned that even theG\psy childrenknew cant. Just as these Gypsy girls wereleaving there was heard a loud knocking at thedoor, and there were ushered in three little boys,wearing by way of disguise mens coats turnedoutside in and Tam o Shanters, and each withhis face blackened. Without any palaver byway of introduction, they commenced to gothrough the usual white boys rhymes,ending : Here comes I, old Beelzehulj, And over my shoulder I carry in\ clnli, And in my hand the fryiiig-pan,
The tinkler-gypsies . after word I tested them within the presence of the Doctor, and to his greatsurprise he learned that even theG\psy childrenknew cant. Just as these Gypsy girls wereleaving there was heard a loud knocking at thedoor, and there were ushered in three little boys,wearing by way of disguise mens coats turnedoutside in and Tam o Shanters, and each withhis face blackened. Without any palaver byway of introduction, they commenced to gothrough the usual white boys rhymes,ending : Here comes I, old Beelzehulj, And over my shoulder I carry in\ clnli, And in my hand the fryiiig-pan, I carena a damn for ony man. I come here neither to beg nor l(j t>orro\v, But I come liere to sweep away all sorrow. Please put a penny into old Heel/.ieV hat ? Before complying with that rccpiest I tried haal to Tinkler White Beys 331 get those three Httle boys to admit they knewcant. Word after word I tried them with, butthey said me Nay. I had given up in despair,and was proceeding to hand them some copper>,. Tinkler Boys. when all at once an idea struck me. Holding up a halfpenny, I said :\\hats that, Johnnie? Greedily Johnnie shouted out, A curdee, sir.•Now, said I, Davy, you were done that time. 332 The Tinkler-Gypsies. Haud up anither yin, sir, said Davy. This time I held up a penny, and all ofthem in unison shouted out A hij-a^ sir,and grabbed at the penny. Thereafter all wasplain sailing. The Gypsy women are muchcleverer and possessed of much keener sen-sibilities than the men, probably due to thegreater scope for work given to them for havingtheir wits developed and sharpened—a strongargument for the suffragettes I And it is astrange coincident that these more alert Gypsygirls should have evinced more decided Gypsycharacteristics, by favouring the song and danceof the Coons or Red Indians while their morephlegmatic brothers should have evmced a likingfor something more in keeping with the Tinklerelement in their character by preferring a per-formance c
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