Gipsy Smith’s quarters—Gipsy Brown’s wigwam—What I saw at the “Robin Hood”—Tea at Pethers’—Pethers’ trials and reception by his mother

p. 1–20

My companion “on the road”—The widow—Telling fortunes—My reception—A youth who had taken to gipsying—A drunken lot—The Forest hotel—A gipsy hunt—Back to my lodgings

20–33

The Philanthropic Institution, Southwark—Mary Carpenter—Mr. Stevenson—Meeting with “an old fool”—A fire king—A showman’s introduction—A school teacher—A gipsy convert’s story—A flat’s row—My lodgings—Return home

39–59

“On the road”—Upon the course—Seeds of thought—My salutation—A gipsy drinking rum out of a coffin—A communist—A gipsy’s earnings—A gipsy child—A gipsy steam-horse owner’s tale

60–74

What I saw and heard in the train—My lodgings—Germs of thought—A race after a dog—Meeting with the gipsy Hollands and Claytons—Alfred Clayton’s trials and change for good—The death of his child—Meets with an educated youth—Clayton begins to pray—Race-goers

75–91

Polls, Jims, and Sals—Drawn to the Green—Northampton Mercury—Cowper’s poem—History of the Green—Spectacle lane—Gipsy murders—Rows—Captain Slash—Sights upon the Green—Gipsy dodges—My lodgings—At tea—Gipsy fight—Mine hostess sings—My bed

92–121

Woman and child in the arms of death—Tramping with my loads—What I saw on the way—Travellers at Paddington—Arriving at Oxford—What I saw on Sunday—My lodging—Meet with Jenny Smith—Number of gipsies at Oxford—Sights at Oxford—My visions during the night—A gipsy showman—A walk with Nabob Brown—Gipsy fairies—Gambling stalls—Boscoe—Backsliders turned gipsies—My last peep—Letter in The Daily News—A gipsy teaching her children to pray

122–164

My tramp—A gipsy woman’s hardships—Row—Gipsy horse-dealing—A gipsy Smith—Salvation Army—My lodgings—Aphorisms—A Sunday morning turn-out—Meeting with the gipsies Bedman—Breakfast—A gipsy’s creeds—Present-day gipsies—Burden’s poems

165–196

Romany—In the bye-lanes—By the side of the canal—Aphorisms—In the meadows near Murcott, and what I saw—Scissor-grinding gipsy—A gipsy with her basket—A stolen child among the gipsies—Friends—At the gate—Coronation pole—G. Flash—Tear-fetching scene—An engineer gipsy—His wife’s sufferings—Tramp from Heckington to Spilsby

197–225

On the way to Leicester—My train experiences—A Sunday evening at Leicester—My lodgings—Meeting with gipsies Winters and Smith at Nottingham—A child stolen—Congress papers—Return home—Gipsies spreading disease—Morning Post

226–251

My companions—Meeting with gipsy Mott—Gipsy horse-stealing—Gipsy showmen—Gipsy Smith’s experiences—Start to Banbury—Gossip on the road—Children’s revival at Byfield—My lodgings—My hostess’s cats—My bed—What I saw on the way to Banbury—Gipsy shows—Number of vans attending Banbury fairs—Solo needed

252–277

Gipsy sham—On the way to Edinburgh—What I saw at Leicester—Cherry Island—Hackney Marshes—Bedford—Leicester fair—What others say—Letter from Mr. Mundella—Essex quarter sessions—Question put to the Government—How they treat gipsies in Hungary—Question put to the Government through Mr. Burt—My Bill—Visit to Turnham Green—Fortune-telling—Gipsies round London

278–303

Wanderings of the brain—My start from Leicester—On the way to Carlisle—Germs of thought grown on the way—Arrival at Kelso—My lodgings—A cold night—Aphorisms—Start to Yetholm—Lovely snow—Arrival at Yetholm—Leydon’s poems—Introduction to Blythe—Parting—Meeting an old gipsy—Gipsy queens—Return to my quarters—Baird’s work—Child sold to the gipsies—Gipsy frozen to the ground—What England has done—What she ought to do—Poem: Zutilla

304–338

My plans explained and objections answered

339–351

Letter to the Right Hon. Earl Aberdare

352–355