oung lady they describe a handsome gentleman as one she
may be assured will be her "husband." To a youth they promise a pretty
lady with a large fortune. And thus suiting their deluding speeches to
the age, circumstances, anticipations, and prospects of those who employ
them, they seldom fail to please their vanity, and often gain a rich
reward for their fraud.

A young lady in Gloucestershire allowed herself to be deluded by a Gipsy
woman, of artful and insinuating address, to a very great extent. This
lady admired a young gentleman, and the Gipsy promised that he would
return her love. The lady gave her all the plate in the house, and a
gold chain and locket, with no other security than a vain promise that
they should be restored at a given period. As might be expected, the
wicked woman was soon off with her booty, and the lady was obliged to
expose her folly. The property being too much to lose, the woman was
pursued and overtaken. She was found washing her clothes in a Gipsy
camp, with the gold chain about her neck. She was taken up, but on
restoring the articles was allowed to escape.

The same woman afterwards persuaded a gentleman's groom that she could
put him in possession of a great sum of money if he would first deposit
with her all he then had. He gave her five pounds and his watch, and
borrowed for her ten more of two of his friends. She engaged to meet him
at midnight in a certain place a mile from the town where he lived, and
that he there should dig up out of the ground a silver pot full of gold
covered with a clean napkin. He went with his pickaxe and shovel at the
appointed time to the supposed lucky spot, having his confidence
strengthened by a dream he happened to have about money, which he
considered a favourable omen of the wealth he was soon to receive. Of
course he met no Gipsy; she had fled another way with the property she
had so wickedly obtained. While waiting her arrival a hare started
suddenly from its resting-place and so alarmed him that he as suddenly
took to his heels and made no stop till he reached his master's house,
where he awoke his fellow-servants and told to them his disaster.

This woman, who made so many dupes, rode a good horse, and dressed both
gaily and expensively. One of her saddles cost thirty pounds. It was
literally studded with silver, for she carried on it the emblems of her
profession wrought in that metal--namely, a half moon, seven stars, and
the