The tinkler-gypsies . Tinklers have always contended that theycame into Scotland by way of Ireland, andthe theory above advanced confirms the tradi-tion. The Picts, Dalriads, and Scots all seemto have sojourned in Ireland, and the Scots andDalriads at all events appear to have enteredScotland by way of Ireland, and the Tinklerelement in the Tinkler would in most cases belikely to descend through families pertaining tosuch tribes. We may see a lingering trace ofthe Irish origin of Scotch races as well as ofScotch Tinklers in the periodical visitationswhich Billy Marshall and his gang app
The tinkler-gypsies . Tinklers have always contended that theycame into Scotland by way of Ireland, andthe theory above advanced confirms the tradi-tion. The Picts, Dalriads, and Scots all seemto have sojourned in Ireland, and the Scots andDalriads at all events appear to have enteredScotland by way of Ireland, and the Tinklerelement in the Tinkler would in most cases belikely to descend through families pertaining tosuch tribes. We may see a lingering trace ofthe Irish origin of Scotch races as well as ofScotch Tinklers in the periodical visitationswhich Billy Marshall and his gang appear tohave made into Ireland. It appears that nowand then, by way of improving themselves andseeing more of the world, they crossed atDonmghadee and visited the counties of Downand Derry. Tinklers in Stornoway who hadrecently sailed over from Orkney say that theyhailed originally from Ireland. The folk-talesof the Tinklers must also to some extent havebeen handed down to them from their fore-bears on the Tinkler Buiiyan a Tinkler-Gypsy. 429 Mr MacRitchie, in \\\% Ancioit and ModernBritons, also shows that the Marshalls plan of*ruddling or keeling their faces to concealtheir appearance is of ancient—^probably Pictish—origin, and a further indication of their anti-quity may be found in their use of very oldScotch and other archaic words, and also inusing such words as—delation for relation,susplain for explain, deturn for return, soosandfor thousand, sorn for thorn, pudlick for public,-sintelplom for simpleton, potagree for photo-graph, afreshment for refreshment, desidenterfor residenter, you and you like for such as fact that Billy Marshall is designed inthe title deeds of the dwelling-house he ownedas brazier and on his tombstone as Tinker leads us to remark that John Bunyan was alsodesigned as brazier and Tinker, and here againthe distinction we have sought to draw betweenTinkler and Gypsy helps to clear up apoint. Mr Groome gives the following freshlink
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