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A History of the Gipsies

A History of the Gipsies

by Walter Simson

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Author
Simson, Walter
Title
A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language
Credits
Produced by Steven Gibbs, Harry Lamé and the Distributed Proofreaders Team at pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
DX: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Romanies
Subject
Romanies
Category
Text
eBook-No.
39665
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39665
Release Date
May 10, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A HISTORY OF THE GIPSIES: WITH Specimens of the Gipsy Language.
  2. 2.CONTENTS. [1]
  3. 3.EDITOR’S PREFACE.
  4. 4.EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
  5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. — CONTINENTAL GIPSIES.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. — ENGLISH GIPSIES. — “ Crime in Families. William Winters’ Family.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. — SCOTTISH GIPSIES, DOWN TO THE YEAR 1715.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — LINLITHGOWSHIRE GIPSIES. [86]
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. — FIFE AND STIRLINGSHIRE GIPSIES.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — TWEED-DALE AND CLYDESDALE GIPSIES.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — BORDER GIPSIES. — JOHNNY FAA, THE GIPSY LADDIE. — “A LAMENT FOR WILL FAA, “The Deceased King of Little Egypt.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE CEREMONIES. — [169] A GIPSY MULTIPLICATION TABLE.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — LANGUAGE. — HUGHIE THE GRÆME.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. — PRESENT CONDITION AND NUMBER OF THE GIPSIES IN SCOTLAND.
  16. 16.A DISQUISITION ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF GIPSYDOM.
  17. 17.INDEX.
  18. 18.Transcriber's Notes:

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