to the most honourable THE PEERS AND MEMBERS of the HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT.

INDEX.

Illustrations.

Part I. Rambles in Gipsydom.

Part II. Commencement of the Gipsy Crusade.

Part III. The Treatment the Gipsies have received in this Country.

Part IV. Gipsy Life in a Variety of Aspects.

Part V. The sad Condition of the Gipsies, with Suggestions for their Improvement.

WORKS PUBLISHED by HAUGHTON and Co. , 10 , paternoster row , london .

Footnotes:

Frontispiece: Among the Gipsy children

GIPSY LIFE:

BEING AN ACCOUNT

of

OUR GIPSIES AND THEIR CHILDREN.

with
SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR IMPROVEMENT.

by
GEORGE SMITH, of Coalville.

london:
HAUGHTON & CO., 10, PATERNOSTER ROW.

[All Rights Reserved.]

1880.

I give my warmest thanks to W. H. Overend, Esq., for the block forming the Frontispiece, which he has kindly presented to me on the condition that the picture occupies the position it does in this book; and also to the proprietor of the Illustrated London News for the blocks to help forward my work, the pictures of which appeared in his journal in November and December of last year and January in the present year, as found herein on pages 42, 48, 66, 76, 96, 108, 118, 122, 174, 192, 236, 283.

I must at the same time express my heart-felt thanks to the manager and proprietors of the Graphic for the blocks forming the illustrations on pages 1, 132, 170, 222, 228, 248, 272, 277, and which appeared in their journal on March 13th in the present year, and which they have kindly presented to me to help forward my object, connected with which sketches, at the kind request of the Editor, I wrote the article.

W. H. Overend, Esq., was the artist for the sketches in the Illustrated London News, and Herbert Johnson, Esq., was the artist for the sketches in the Graphic.

I also tender my warmest thanks to the Press generally for the help rendered to me during the crusade so far, without which I should have done but little.