CHAP.

PAGE

I.

Gypsy Court—My Initiation into Gypsydom

1

II.

Characters of the Court—Reading Borrow

16

III.

North-Country Gypsies

32

IV.

My Poaching Pussy—A Romany Benison—My First Taste of Hedgehog

41

V.

A Gypsy Baptism—Romany Names

52

VI.

I make a New Acquaintance

57

VII.

The Blackpool Gypsyry

71

VIII.

A Trentside Fair

89

IX.

Taken for Tramps—An East Anglian Family

99

X.

Peterborough Fair

118

XI.

A Forgotten Highway—“On the Road” with Jonathan—The Patrin—The Ghost of the Haystack

134

XII.

The Gypsy of the Town

152

XIII.

With the Yorkshire Gypsies

172

XIV.

A Night with the Gypsies—The Sweep of Lynn—London Gypsies—On Epsom Downs

186

XV.

Tinkers and Grinders

205

XVI.

The Inn on the Ridgeway—Tales by the Fireside

213

XVII.

Horncastle Fair

229

XVIII.

A Gypsy Sepulchre—Burial Lore—The Passing of Jonathan

238

XIX.

Bitshado Pawdel (Transported)

247

XX.

A Romany Munchausen

256

XXI.

The Gypsy of the Hills—In the Heart of Wales—A Westmorland Horse Fair

262

XXII.

Furzemoor

278

Glossary of Romany Words

291

Gypsy Fore or Christian Names

299

Index

303