been named as a reward; but she refused to take it, saying, she owed
the author more than that; yea, all that she had, for the comfort she was
then enjoying. This was the language of an honest and grateful heart.
On being compelled to take it, she bought herself some garments for the
winter.

On another occasion, when she was coming from some place which she had
visited, and was detained on the road longer than she had expected, she
became penniless; yet would she not beg, lest it might be looked on as
one step towards turning back to habits she had entirely abandoned. She
assured the author that she would rather have starved than return to her
old trade of begging; and besides, added she, "the people know that I am
one of your reformed Gipsies, and I will never bring a reproach upon my
best friends."

The young widow was taught to make shoes; but becoming depressed in
spirits after the death of her children, she has been placed in service.
And another young Gipsy woman has also obtained a situation as a servant.

But while the Committee has had to rejoice over the success that has
attended its efforts, it has also experienced great and manifold
disappointments. But its members are not discouraged, and it is hoped
they never will be.

One young woman stayed with the Committee a month, and then ran away.
She was lamentably ignorant, and could never be brought to work. {75}
Another very promising in temper and habits, stayed in a family three
months, and then left them to live again with her parents, who encouraged
her to believe that she would be married to one of her clan. It may be
hoped the knowledge she gained while in service may be useful to her at
some future time. She is not, cannot be happy, and is sorry that she
left her service and her friends. The father and mother have promised to
stay in Southampton through the next winter, which they will be
encouraged to do, with the hope of gaining instruction in the truths of
religion.

A woman, her four sons, and their grandmother, {76} joined the family of
reformed Gipsies for a short time, and we had considerable hopes of them
all, the two eldest boys excepted, who refused to work, and who grew much
more vicious than when under the hedges. Their father had formerly been
sentenced to death, but by the interest of a friend, the sentence was
changed to fourteen years' hard labour on board the hulks at Portsmouth,
nearly nine of which had expired at the time