who was to appear
against some of their people for horse-stealing; the persons who were
guilty of the deed are dead, and in their last moments exclaimed with
horror and despair, "Murder, murder." But these circumstances do not
stamp their race without exception as infamous monsters in wickedness.

The following is a remarkable instance of the love of costly attire in a
female Gipsy of the old school. The woman alluded to obtained a very
large sum of money from three maiden ladies, pledging that it should be
doubled by her art in conjuration. She then decamped to another
district, where she bought a blood-horse, a black beaver hat, a new
side-saddle and bridle, a silver-mounted whip, and figured away in her
ill-obtained finery at the fairs. It is not easy to imagine the
disappointment and resentment of the covetous and credulous ladies, whom
she had so easily duped. With the present race of our gutter-scum
Gipsies the last remnant of Gipsy pride is nearly dead--poverty, rags,
and despair taking the place.

Gipsies of the old type are not strangers to pawnbrokers' shops; but they
do not visit these places for the same purposes as the vitiated poor of
our trading towns. A pawnshop is their bank. When they acquire property
illegally, as by stealing, swindling, or fortune-telling, they purchase
valuable plate, and sometimes in the same hour pledge it for safety.
Such property they have in store against days of adversity and trouble,
which on account of their dishonest habits often overtake them. Should
one of their families stand before a judge of his country, charged with a
crime which is likely to cost him his life, or to transport him, every
article of value is sacrificed to save him from death or apprehended
banishment. In such cases they generally retain a counsel to plead for
the brother in adversity. Their attachment to the horse, donkey, rings,
snuff-box, silver spoons, and all things, except the clothes, of the
deceased relatives is very strong. With such articles they will never
part, except in the greatest distress, and then they only pledge some of
them, which are redeemed as soon as they possess the means.

It has been stated by some writers, that there is hardly a Gipsy in
existence who could not, if desired, produce his ten or twenty pounds "at
a pinch." Some of those who work, no doubt, could; but it is entirely
erroneous, as many other statements relating to the Gipsies, to imagine
that the wh