The tinkler-gypsies . nklers : O mark them well when next the group you seeIn vacant barn or resting on the lea ;They are the remnants of a race of old ;Spare not the trifle for your fortune told. But Hogg goes on to say that the Gypsies weredescended from the Israelites—a contentionstill considered highly probable by manybelievers in the testimony of traiition, andthe Gyisies themselves have a tradition thatthey hail from Egypt, but one which has notso far been proved to be founded on fact. Whence, then, arises that unmistakablestrangenes-s in the Tinklers appearance 1 Habit and environment h
The tinkler-gypsies . nklers : O mark them well when next the group you seeIn vacant barn or resting on the lea ;They are the remnants of a race of old ;Spare not the trifle for your fortune told. But Hogg goes on to say that the Gypsies weredescended from the Israelites—a contentionstill considered highly probable by manybelievers in the testimony of traiition, andthe Gyisies themselves have a tradition thatthey hail from Egypt, but one which has notso far been proved to be founded on fact. Whence, then, arises that unmistakablestrangenes-s in the Tinklers appearance 1 Habit and environment have undoubtedlyplayed their part, but we consider that thestrangeness in their appearance arises princi-pally from a two-fold source, namely, from thelineage of the Tinkler element and from thelineage of the Gypsy element in the compositebreed of Tinkler-Gypsies It is generally con-ceded that Romani-speaking Gypsies must eitherhave originally hailed from Hindustan, or atall events their forebears must have sojourned. Origin of Tiiik/ef-Gvpsies. 391 there for a very long period indeed. Theirappearance, characteristics, and the preponder-ance of Hindustani words in Romanes conspireto prove that. Although sake we use throughoutthis book the word Tinkler to denoteTinkler-Gypsy, in discussing this questionwe have preferred to use the expression Tinkler-Gypsies in place of the generic andloosely-applied word Gypsies. The use ofthat latter word has probably been caused bythe haziness and incompleteness of the informa-tion hitheito at the disposal of students of thesubject, but such use is undoubtedly (Smith) was not so far out when hesaid there isnt a drop of real Komani bloodin the whole of Engaland, for it is perhapsimpossible to find a pure-bred Romani-speakingGypsy in England. But there are certainlypeople known by the name of may not even be at one as towhom should be included under such a , the author of the e
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