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people, than finds its way into a Gypsey's tent.

Though they are fond of a great degree of heat, and to lie so near the
fire, as to be in danger of burning, yet they can bear to travel in the
severest cold, bareheaded, with no other covering than some old rags
carelessly thrown over them.

The causes of these bodily qualities, or at least some of them, evidently
arise from their education, and hardy manner of life.

The pitiless mother takes her three months old child on her back, and
wanders about, in fair and foul weather, in heat or cold; there it sits
winter and summer, in a linen rug, with its head over her shoulder.
Gypsey women never use a cradle, nor even possess such a piece of
furniture. The child sleeps in their arms, or on the ground. When a boy
attains three years of age, his lot becomes still harder. Whilst an
infant, and his age reckoned by weeks and months, he was wrapt in rags,
but now deprived of these, he is equally with his parents, exposed to the
rigour of the elements, for want of covering; he is now put to trial how
far his legs will carry him; and must be content to travel about with, at
most, no other defence for his feet than thin socks.

Thus he acquires a robust constitution by hardships and misery; but
though the children of Gypsies do not partake of what the refinements of
art and of tenderness would account advantages, writers are unanimous in
stating, they are good-looking, well-shaped, lively, clever, and have
fine eyes. The Gypsies, in common with uncivilized people, entertain
unbounded love for their children. This is a source of inexcusable
neglect: Gypsey children never feel the rod, they fly into the most
violent passions, and at the same time hear nothing from their parents
but flattering and coaxing. In return they act with ingratitude, as is
commonly the consequence of such education.

Gypsies would long ago have been divested of their swarthy complexions,
had they discontinued their filthy mode of living. The Laplanders,
Samoieds, as well as the Siberians, likewise, have brown, yellow-coloured
skins, in consequence of living from their childhood, in smoke and dirt,
in the same manner as the Gypsies.

Experience shows that their dark colour, which is continued from
generation to generation, is more the effect of education, and manner of
life, than of descent. Among those who serve in the Imperial army, where
they have learned to pay attention to order and clean