FREDERICK S. ARNOLD. Ill 



showing his paces, they go to the nearest kichamen 

 (tavern or saloon), where perhaps the bargain is consum- 

 mated over a pi of tddipani (drink of whiskey), or 

 perhaps the buyer goes off, returns, and clinches the 

 bargain in the evening. I once saw such a sale in pro- 

 gress : the horse in question was a worthless one, and the 

 day after I found the Gypsies had left. " Where are 

 " they gone ? " I asked one of the neighbors. " I don't 

 "know," the man replied ; "but your friend sold that 

 " horse last night and made a cool fifty dollars on it, and 

 " T guess he thought he'd better leave town before he 

 " heard any complaints of the bargain ! " 



That Gypsies are shrewd horse dealers is true, though 

 I believe there are Yankees who are shrewder, but that 

 they are horse thieves, as has been sometimes charged, 

 I do not believe, if for no other reason, because it would 

 be nearly impossible for them to escape detection. 



The remaining property of the Gypsy consists in those 

 little necessities of life, clothing, linen, and so forth, 

 which he can carry about with him. Dogs are numer- 

 ous and of all kinds from a thorough-bred, once in a 

 great while, down to the lowest kind of cur, and almost 

 every Gypsy carries some chickens round with him. 

 Bantams and Tcuren Tcdnis (fighting cocks) he prefers. 

 Many a Gypsy tent, too, has a big, gilt cage with a 

 cheriko (bird) or parrot in it, the green parrot being 

 very much admired and liked by the Gypsies, and often 

 carried round by them. 



Gypsies do some little odd jobbing work, by which 

 they eke out their gains from horse dealing and fortune 

 telling. Basket making and selling is one, though now 

 they often buy the baskets they sell instead of making 

 them. In England they make a lot of little knick- 

 knacks, and an Englishman presented me with a clothes- 

 pin made out of a cleft hazel twig, kept from splitting 

 too far by a band of zinc. These, he told me, they made, 



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