guard, paid them the eleven shillings. With this they walked out of his
shop, saying that they would take the bill with them, and send a man with
the money and a barrow for the wine, cake, &c., in a few minutes, which
they did not, but left the tradesman a wiser but sadder man for spending
eleven shillings in things he did not require; and his remarks to me
were, "No more Gipsies for me, thank you. I've had quite plenty of
Gipsies for my lifetime."

Cases have been known when the Gipsy women have gone among the farmers'
cattle and rubbed their nostrils with some nastiness to such an extent as
to cause the cattle to loathe their food. The Gipsy in the lane--who of
course knows all about the affair--goes to the farmer and tells him he
can cure his cattle. This is agreed upon. All the Gipsy does is to
visit the cattle secretly and slyly, and rub off the nastiness he has put
on. The cattle immediately begin to eat their food, and the Gipsy gets
his fee. They kill lambs by sticking pins into their heads.

Tallemant says that near Peye, in Picardy, a Gipsy offered a stolen sheep
to a butcher for one hundred sous, or five francs; but the butcher
declined to give more than four francs for it. The butcher then went
away; whereupon the Gipsy pulled the sheep from a sack into which he had
put it, and substituted for it a child belonging to his tribe. He then
ran after the butcher, and said, "Give me five francs, and you shall have
the sack into the bargain." The butcher paid him the money, and went
away. When he got home he opened the sack, and was much astonished when
he saw a little boy jump out of it, who in an instant caught up the sack
and ran off. "Never was a poor man so hoaxed as this butcher." When
they want to leave a place where they have been stopping they set out in
an opposite direction to that in their right course. The Gipsies have a
thousand other tricks--so says one of the Gipsy fraternity named Pechou
de Ruby. Paul Lacroix says that when they take up their quarters in any
village they steal very little in its immediate vicinity, but in the
neighbouring parishes they rob and plunder in the most daring manner. If
they find a sum of money they give notice to the captain, and make a
rapid flight from the place. They make counterfeit money, and put it
into circulation. They play all sorts of games; they buy all sorts of
horses, whether sound or unsound, provided they can manage to pay for
them in t