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