The tinkler-gypsies . e night while she slept, and took hisdeparture for Edinburgh in a bleak winter nightthrough a trackless country and an unknownpath ; impressed at the same time with a dreadof encountering any of Will Marshalls his dreary walk he took a retrospect ofhis former misspent life, and such is humaninconsistency after the commission of a verymean and unfeeling action, he made a solemnvow to reform, provided he ever reached aplace of security. It is not, therefore, wonder-ful that on drawing near to Edinburgh hisevil propensities began to return and gatherstrength
The tinkler-gypsies . e night while she slept, and took hisdeparture for Edinburgh in a bleak winter nightthrough a trackless country and an unknownpath ; impressed at the same time with a dreadof encountering any of Will Marshalls his dreary walk he took a retrospect ofhis former misspent life, and such is humaninconsistency after the commission of a verymean and unfeeling action, he made a solemnvow to reform, provided he ever reached aplace of security. It is not, therefore, wonder-ful that on drawing near to Edinburgh hisevil propensities began to return and gatherstrength. To complete the chain of evidence to showthat the Marshalls are probably related to theFaas let us turn to George Borrows descriptionof his visit to Queen Esther Blythe or Faa C^ I asked her if she had not seen some queer 404 The Tinkler-Gypsies. folks at Yetholm in her grandfathers time. Dosta, dosta, said she, plenty, plenty of queerfolk I saw at Yetholm in my grandfatherstime, and not the least queer is he who is. Esther Faa Blythe, late Queen of theScotch Gypsies. il!y kiml iicniiissioii of The Century Co., rninn ISiiuare, New York.) asking nic questions. Did you ever see PiperAllan ? I said; he was a great friend of yourgrandfathers. I never saw him, she replied ;but I have often heard of him. He marriedone of our people.^ He did so, said I, andthe marriage feast was held on the green just Tinklers rehiied to Broken Clans. 405 behind us. He got a good clever wife, and shegot a bad, rascally husband. One night, aftertaking an affectionate farewell of her, he left heron an expedition, with plenty of money in hispocket, which he had obtained from her andwhich she had procured by her dexterity. Aftergoing about four miles he bethought himselfthat she had still money, and returning crept upinto the room in which she lay asleep and stoleher pocket, in which were eight guineas; thenslunk away and never returned, leaving her inpoverty, from which she never recovered. Probably, t
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