GIPSIES. 



take place between these two sequestered individuals. 

 The fowl would approach the quadruped with notes 

 of complacency, rubbing herself gently against his 

 legs ; while the horse would look down with satis- 

 faction, and move with the greatest caution and cir- 

 cumspection, lest he should trample on his diminutive 

 companion. Thus, by mutual good offices, each 

 seemed to console the vacant hours of the other : so 

 that Milton, when he puts the following sentiment 

 in the mouth of Adam, seems to be somewhat mis- 

 taken : 



" Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl, 

 So well converse, nor with the ox the ape." 



P 



LETTER LXVII. 



TO THE SAME. 



SELBORNE, Oct. 2, 1775. 

 DEAR SIR, 



WE have two gangs, or hordes of gipsies, which 

 infest the south and west of England, and come 

 round in their circuit two or three times in the year. 

 One of these tribes calls itself by the noble name of 

 Stanley, of which I have nothing particular to say ; 

 but the other is distinguished by an appellative some- 

 what remarkable. As far as their harsh gibberish 

 can be understood, they seem to say that the name 

 of their clan is Curleople : now the termination of 

 this word is apparently Grecian ; and, as Mezeray 

 and the gravest historians all agree that these va- 

 grants did certainly migrate from Egypt and the 

 East, two or three centuries ago, and so spread by 

 degrees over Europe, may not this family name, a 

 little corrupted, be the very name they brought with 



