. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. EARRING OF A GIPSY. EARRING OF A WALLAay, thevhave the wedding ceremony gone through ; but oftenthey do not go to church, and merely choose a wife and A CIRCUIT. 351 live with her afterwards. But though the gipsy is lookedon by others as the lowest in the social scale, he alsolooks on some of his class as beneath him, and unfittingfor him to associate with. A gipsy of the village Csavas,for example, would not drink out of a glass from whicha gipsy of Bonyha had drunk; and when working to-gether in the
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. EARRING OF A GIPSY. EARRING OF A WALLAay, thevhave the wedding ceremony gone through ; but oftenthey do not go to church, and merely choose a wife and A CIRCUIT. 351 live with her afterwards. But though the gipsy is lookedon by others as the lowest in the social scale, he alsolooks on some of his class as beneath him, and unfittingfor him to associate with. A gipsy of the village Csavas,for example, would not drink out of a glass from whicha gipsy of Bonyha had drunk; and when working to-gether in the fields, two pitchers of water must alwaysbe brought, in order that both may be able to quenchtheir thirst. They consequently do not intermarry, asone says the other is unclean. Their payment, for labourat least, is always in kind,—corn, maize, brandy, sort of earrings a gipsy girl wears, a Wallack womanwould not use on any account. The whole pattern of theornament is different. The gipsy that has left his rude uncivi
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