r of
seeing them return in a long procession from the fields. Some of the
women carried small brown babies, that appeared able to find footing
anywhere on their mothers' shoulders, backs, or breasts. These labourers
are almost entirely paid in food and other necessaries, and if kindly
treated are very honourable towards their master, and generally adopt his
religion. When smarting under any grievance, they, on the contrary,
sometimes change their faith _en masse_, and when conciliated undergo as
speedy a re-conversion. The women are, as a rule, very fond of
ornaments, and the men are, above all things, proud of a horse or a pair
of scarlet breeches. Of late years they have in a few districts began to
intermarry with the Wallachs, and the sharp distinction between them and
the other races in Hungary will, no doubt, gradually disappear."

The _Weekly Times_ again takes up the subject, and the following appears
on January 9th, 1880:--"We made a second expedition, with Mr. George
Smith, of Coalville, on Sunday, in search of a Gipsy encampment; and
though the way was long and tedious, and we were both lamed with walking
before we returned at night, yet we had not gone one step out of our way.
There is no encampment of these ancient and interesting people in the
neighbourhood of the hundred odd square miles which composes the site of
the metropolis, with which Mr. Smith is not acquainted, and to which we
verily believe he could lead a friend if he was blindfolded. The way we
went must remain somewhat of a secret, because the Gipsies do not care to
see many visitors on the only day of the week which is one of absolute
rest to them. All that we shall disclose about the way is, that we
skirted Mount Nod, and for a short distance looked upon the face of an
ancient river, then up-hill we clambered for many longish miles, until we
turned out of a certain lane into the encampment. There was a rude
picturesqueness in the gaping of the vans and tents. In the foreground
were the vans, to the rear the cloth kraals, with their smoky coverings
stretched over poles; from a hole in the centre the smoke ascended,
furnishing evidence that the open brazier was burning within. The vans
protected the approach to the camp, just in the same way that artillery
are planted to keep the road to a military encampment. Mr. Smith's face
seemed to be well known to these strange people, and we no sooner
appeared in sight than the swinging door of