tailieunhanh - Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children

I have taken the liberty of humbly dedicating this work to you, the object of which is not to tickle the critical ears of ethnologists and philologists, but to touch the hearts of my countrymen on behalf of the poor Gipsy women and children and other roadside Arabs flitting about in our midst, in such a way as to command attention to these neglected, dark, marshy spots of human life, whose seedlings have been running wild among us during the last three centuries, spreading their poisonous influence abroad, not only detrimental to the growth of Christianity and the spread of civilisation, but to the present. | Gipsy Life by George Smith 1 Gipsy Life by George Smith The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gipsy Life by George Smith This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at 2 Gipsy Life by George Smith Title Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children Author George Smith Release Date April 9 2009 eBook 28548 Language English Character set encoding ISO-646-US US-ASCII START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIPSY LIFE Transcribed from the 1880 Haughton and Co. edition by David Price email ccx074@ Picture Book cover Picture 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. Gipsy Life by George Smith 3 W. H. OVEREND Esq. was the artist for the sketches in the Illustrated London News and HERBERT JOHNSON Esq. .