FOR the additional illustrations in this edition I owe my best thanks to
Mr. W. Weblyn, the proprietor and art editor of the _Illustrated Sporting
and Dramatic News_; Mr. A. Watson, the literary editor; and also to the
Rev. Edward Weldon, M.A., who accompanied me on one of my visits to the
gipsies to take the sketches, which appeared with an encouraging and
helpful notice on March 1, 1884.
I am also much indebted to the Editor of the _Pall Mall Gazette_ for his
sketch and valuable help, and also to others with kind heart and ready
pen, whose names would fill a volume, for assisting me to place upon the
statute book the Canal Boats Act of 1884, which will, when the whole of
my plans are carried out, bring education and protection to 60,000 canal
and gipsy children, with but little cost or inconvenience to the van and
cabin dwellers.
GEORGE SMITH, _of Coalville_.
_Michaelmas_, 1884.