The tinkler-gypsies . in aneven more wonderful way. The resemblance ofthe two stories is noteworthy, and it would beinteresting to discover in what words JosephTrain first related the story recorded by SirWalter. The following is the tndiiion narratedto the writer hereof by a Galloway Tinkler : — Billy Marshall and several of liis gang had l)een out ona foraging expedition with some other Gypsy gangs. Theyhad killed a cow, and Billy had sent his comrades off l)yfinother road to his camp with his corner of the wending his way home to the encampment, hemet in with a gamekeeper who
The tinkler-gypsies . in aneven more wonderful way. The resemblance ofthe two stories is noteworthy, and it would beinteresting to discover in what words JosephTrain first related the story recorded by SirWalter. The following is the tndiiion narratedto the writer hereof by a Galloway Tinkler : — Billy Marshall and several of liis gang had l)een out ona foraging expedition with some other Gypsy gangs. Theyhad killed a cow, and Billy had sent his comrades off l)yfinother road to his camp with his corner of the wending his way home to the encampment, hemet in with a gamekeeper who had formerly attemptedto have him imprisoned for poaching. Billy settled oldscores by killing the gamekeeper. He then pitched himover a dyke, but when the gamekeeper lay there it occurredto Billy that his own coat was not so good as the game-keepers, lie therefore exchanged coats and left his ownone l)ing on the dyke. As his camp had been situatedat some considerable distance, he thontrlit it advisable to h-f rK^^. A Modern Meg Mfrrilies 122 The Tinkler-Gypsies. spend the niglit in a ccjmmon lodgint^-house in a left the gamekeepers jacket hanging on the back ofa chair and then went to sleep. Billy had not long leftthe spot where he had left the gamekeepers body lying,when along came a tramp, who espied Billys own coatlying on the dyke, looked at it, and thinking it betterthan his own also promptly made an exchange. Thetramp happened to hit upon the same lodging-house asBilly. The tramp was early astir in the morning, andseeing the gamekeepers coat hanging on ihe back of thechair, he coveted it, donned it, and was soon hurryingalong the road, having luckily for Billy left him in pos-session of his own coal. The tramp had not gone farwhen two beagles (policemen) from Dumfries arrestedhim. He was taken before the Circuit Court at Dum-fries, and confronted with the damning evidence thatwhilst he was wearing the gamekeepers coat whenarrested, his own garment, as was cl
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