It is possible that amidst their cant and corrupted dialect
many mutilated remains of their native language might still be
discovered.
With regard to those peculiar people, the gypsies, one thing is very
remarkable, and especially as they came from warmer climates;
and that is, that while other beggars lodge in barns, stables, and
cow-houses, these sturdy savages seem to pride themselves in
braving the severities of winter, and in living sub dio the whole
year round. Last September was as wet a month as ever was
known; and yet during those deluges did a young gypsy-girl lie-in
in the midst of one of our hop-gardens, on the cold ground, with
nothing over her but a piece of blanket extended on a few hazel-
rods bent hoop-fashion, and stuck into the earth at each end, in
circumstances too trying for a cow in the same condition: yet
within this garden there was a large hop-kiln, into the chambers of
which she might have retired, had she thought shelter an object
worthy her attention.
Europe itself, it seems, cannot set bounds to the rovings of those
vagabonds; for Mr.
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