make knives, seals, and needles;
and sometimes they work in tin and brass. Their materials, tools, and
apparatus, are of a very inferior kind. The anvil is a stone; the other
implements are a pair of hand bellows, a hammer, a pair of pincers, a
vice, and a file. These ape the tools which a Nomadic Gypsey takes with
him in his perambulations.

Whenever he is disposed to work, he is at no loss for fuel: on his
arrival at a station where he proposes to remain a few days, he takes his
beast, loads him with wood, builds a small kiln, and prepares his own
coal. In favourable weather, his work is carried on in the open air;
when it is stormy, he retires under his tent. He does not stand, but
sits down on the ground cross-legged to his work; which position is
rendered necessary, not only by custom, but by the quality of his tools.
The wife sits by to work the bellows, in which operation she is assisted
by the elder children. The Gypsies are generally praised for their
dexterity and quickness, notwithstanding the bad tools they have to work
with.

Another branch of commerce much followed by Gypsies, is horse-dealing, to
which they have been attached from the earliest period of their history.
In those parts of Hungary, where the climate is so mild, that horses may
lie out all the year, the Gypsies avail themselves of this circumstance
to breed, as well as to deal in horses; by which they sometimes not only
procure a competency, but grew rich. Instances have been known on the
Continent, of gypsies keeping from fifty to seventy horses each; and
those the best bred horses of the country; some of which they let out for
hire, others they exchange or sell. But this description of Gypsey
horse-dealers is not numerous; the greater number of them deal in
inferior kinds.

In addition to the two professions before-mentioned, commonly followed by
the men, some of them employ themselves as carpenters and turners; the
former making watering troughs and chests; the latter turn, trenchers and
dishes; make sieves, spoons, and other trifling articles, which they hawk
about. Many of them, as well as the smiths, find constant employment in
the houses of the better sort of people; for whom they work the year
round. They are not paid in money, but beside other advantages find a
certain subsistence.

Those who are not thus circumstanced, do not wait at home for customers,
but with their implements in a sack thrown over their shoulders, s