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Plato Buckland and Harry Small are two pure blood 

 Romany patriarchs whose caravans pass through Pough- 

 keepsie now and then. Buckland is the father of half a 

 dozen really beautiful daughters, and his sons-in-law, the 

 Pinfolds and Comeagains, as well as his sons, travel with 

 him. In 1892 he and Harry Small were together, but in 

 1893 the Smalls had jdlVd o waver drom (gone another 

 way) and he was with the Smiths — very deep black 

 Gypsies. 



Then besides these there are Stanleys, who come here 

 very seldom, Williamses from Connecticut, the Scotch. 

 Williamsons mentioned above, and so on. 



New Jersey is a land very rich, in Gypsies. Its win- 

 ters are not so cold as New York's, its people are horsey, 

 and it contains the races. There I know deep black 

 Romanys, Evans, Levels and others, but I have not met 

 these in the Hudson River country. 



Our Hudson River Gypsies light their winter fires in 

 West Virginia and Maryland, or rarely Southern New 

 Jersey. They move north with the spring through New 

 Jersey and Pennsylvania. By June they are camped in 

 the vacant lots under the old trees on top of the Pali- 

 sades. Sometimes they cross over into the city and a 

 friend of mine visited a Gypsy camp on Manhattan Is- 

 land near Kingsbridge. Two weeks after their stop on 

 the Palisades I have seen them in Newburgh on Snake 

 Hill and in Wiesner's Lane and the next day they will 

 be in Poughkeepsie. If they get here in July they will 

 wander back and forth between Newburgh and Albany 

 all summer, getting down into Delaware County when 

 the peaches are ripe, not to the special benefit of the 

 orchards. Or perhaps on leaving Poughkeepsie they 

 will go down into Connecticut. There they may be 

 found near Ridgefield, Danbury, or BridgexDort all 

 summer. As the swallows fly home they are moving 

 towards New Jersey and Pennsylvania again and they 



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