SUNDAY RAMBLES AMONG THE GIPSIES UPON PUMP HILL.
Gipsy Smith’s quarters—Gipsy Brown’s wigwam—What I saw _p._ 1–20
at the “Robin Hood”—Tea at Pethers’—Pethers’ trials and
reception by his mother
II.
RAMBLES AMONG THE GIPSIES IN EPPING FOREST.
My companion “on the road”—The widow—Telling fortunes—My 20–33
reception—A youth who had taken to gipsying—A drunken
lot—The Forest hotel—A gipsy hunt—Back to my lodgings
III.
RAMBLES AMONG THE GIPSIES UPON WANSTEAD FLATS.
The Philanthropic Institution, Southwark—Mary 39–59
Carpenter—Mr. Stevenson—Meeting with “an old fool”—A
fire king—A showman’s introduction—A school teacher—A
gipsy convert’s story—A flat’s row—My lodgings—Return
home
IV.
RAMBLES AMONG THE GIPSIES AT NORTHAMPTON.
“On the road”—Upon the course—Seeds of thought—My 60–74
salutation—A gipsy drinking rum out of a coffin—A
communist—A gipsy’s earnings—A gipsy child—A gipsy
steam-horse owner’s tale
V.
RAMBLES AMONG THE GIPSIES AT WARWICK RACES.
What I saw and heard in the train—My lodgings—Germs of 75–91
thought—A race after a dog—Meeting with the gipsy
Hollands and Claytons—Alfred Clayton’s trials and change
for good—The death of his child—Meets with an educated
youth—Clayton begins to pray—Race-goers
VI.
RAMBLES AMONG THE GIPSIES AT BOUGHTON GREEN.
Polls, Jims, and Sals—Drawn to the Green—_Northampton 92–121
Mercury_—Cowper’s poem—History of the Green—Spectacle
lane—Gipsy murders—Rows—Captain Slash—Sights upon the
Green—Gipsy dodges—My lodgings—At tea—Gipsy fight—Mine
hostess sings—My bed
VII.
RAMBLES AMONG THE GIPSIES AT OXFORD FAIR.
Woman and child in the arms of death—Tramping with my 122–164
loads—What I saw on the way—Travellers at
Paddington—Arriving at Oxford—What I saw on Sunday—My
lodging—Meet with Jenny Smith—Number of gipsies at
Oxford—Sights at Oxford—My visions during the night—A
gipsy showman—A walk with Nabob Brown—Gipsy
fairies—Gambling stalls—Boscoe—Backsliders turned
gipsies—My last peep—Letter in _The Daily News_—A gipsy
teaching her children to pray
VIII.
RAMBLES AMONG THE GIPSIES AT HINCKLEY.
My tramp—A gipsy woman’s hardships—Row—Gipsy 165–196
horse-dealing—A gipsy Smith—Salvation Army—My
lodgings—Aphorisms—A Sunday morning turn-out—Meeting
with the gipsies Bedman—Breakfast—A gipsy’s
creeds—Present-day gipsies—Burden’s poems
IX.
AMONG THE GIPSIES AT LONG BUCKBY.
Romany—In the bye-lanes—By the side of the 197–225
canal—Aphorisms—In the meadows near Murcott, and what I
saw—Scissor-grinding gipsy—A gipsy with her basket—A
stolen child among the gipsies—Friends—At the
gate—Coronation pole—G. Flash—Tear-fetching scene—An
engineer gipsy—His wife’s sufferings—Tramp from
Heckington to Spilsby
X.
RAMBLES AT BULWELL AND NOTTINGHAM.
On the way to Leicester—My train experiences—A Sunday 226–251
evening at Leicester—My lodgings—Meeting with gipsies
Winters and Smith at Nottingham—A child stolen—Congress
papers—Return home—Gipsies spreading disease—_Morning
Post_
XI.
RAMBLES AMONG THE GIPSIES AT DAVENTRY AND BANBURY.
My companions—Meeting with gipsy Mott—Gipsy 252–277
horse-stealing—Gipsy showmen—Gipsy Smith’s
experiences—Start to Banbury—Gossip on the
road—Children’s revival at Byfield—My lodgings—My
hostess’s cats—My bed—What I saw on the way to
Banbury—Gipsy shows—Number of vans attending Banbury
fairs—Solo needed
XII.
SHORT EXCURSIONS AND RAMBLES.
Gipsy sham—On the way to Edinburgh—What I saw at 278–303
Leicester—Cherry Island—Hackney
Marshes—Bedford—Leicester fair—What others say—Letter
from Mr. Mundella—Essex quarter sessions—Question put to
the Government—How they treat gipsies in
Hungary—Question put to the Government through Mr.
Burt—My Bill—Visit to Turnham
Green—Fortune-telling—Gipsies round London
XIII.
RAMBLES AMONG THE SCOTCH GIPSIES.
Wanderings of the brain—My start from Leicester—On the 304–338
way to Carlisle—Germs of thought grown on the
way—Arrival at Kelso—My lodgings—A cold
night—Aphorisms—Start to Yetholm—Lovely snow—Arrival at
Yetholm—Leydon’s poems—Introduction to
Blythe—Parting—Meeting an old gipsy—Gipsy queens—Return
to my quarters—Baird’s work—Child sold to the
gipsies—Gipsy frozen to the ground—What England has
done—What she ought to do—Poem: Zutilla
APPENDIX A.
My plans _explained_ and _objections_ answered 339–351
APPENDIX B.
Letter to the Right Hon. Earl Aberdare 352–355