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AMERICAN
GYPSIES
By
ALBERT
THOMAS
SINCLAIR
EDITED
FROM
MANUSCRIPTS
IN
THE
NEW
YORK
PUBLIC
LIBRARY
WITH
ADDITIONS
By
GEORGE
F.
BLACK,
Ph.D,
THE
NEW
YORK
PUBLIC
LIBRARY
1917
AMERICAN
GYPSIES
By
ALBERT
THOMAS
SINCLAIR
EDITED
FROM
MANUSCRIPTS
IN
THE
NEW
YORK
PUBLIC
LIBRARY
WITH
ADDITIONS
By
GEORGE
F.
BLACK,
Ph.D.
THE
NEW
YORK
PUBLIC
LIBRARY
1917
**7
SEP
13
191?
Reprinted
August
1917
FROM
THE
Bulletin
of
The
New
York
Public
Library
of
form
May
1917
p-94
[viii-13-17
3cl
AMERICAN
GYPSIES
1
MY
my
to
the
first
acquaintance
with
American
Gypsies
was
at
[C.
Mount
Desert
several
years
ago
1880]
.
One
day
home
while
out
walking
I
came
across
a
Gypsy
camp,
and
stopped
there
a
half
-hour
talking
with
a
boy
of
about
seventeen
who
was
the
only
person
at
in
the
camp.
He
asked
me
where
I
lived,
business,
and
various
questions
about
myself.
camp
again
with
several
gentlemen.
looking
Gypsy
woman
of
fifty
with
a
face
and
figure
like
a
Roman
matron
commenced
to
tell
the
company
where
I
came
from,
my
business
and
various
other
particulars.
Afterwards,
evidently
thinking
she
had
made
an
impression
by
her
power
of
divination,
she
wished
to
gentlemen
tell
The
next
afternoon
I
went
As
we
approached,
a
large
fine-
the
fortunes
of
the
rest
of
the
who
were
much
surprised
at
her
correct
accounts
of
myself.
race.
The
whole
thing
showed
the
shrewdness
of
the
Gypsy
spoken
with
She
had
met
and
to
the
me
the
previous"
morning
and
had
seen
me
go
I
camp,
and
the
boy
had
evidently
related
to
her
what
the
second
day and
sought
to
surprise
us
had
told
him.
by
her
She
recognized
me
all
skill
in
fortune-telling
by
pretending
to
divine
all
she
told
by
her
arts.
As
to
these
Gypsies
intended
to
remain
a
it
week
or
more,
and
I
had
little
do
at
the
time,
seemed
to
be
a
good
opportunity
to
learn
Gypsy,
which
I
accordingly
improved.
As
a
rule
Gypsies
are
unwilling
to
teach
a
stranger
their
language.
liberal
presents
of
cigars
It
was
therefore
only
by
to
teach
me.
and
tobacco
to
the
men
and
induced
it
is
bright
silk
handkerchiefs
to
the
women
and
girls
that
I
this
band
Again,
Gypsies
seldom
can
read
or
write,
and
not
easy
to
learn a
language
accurately
from
ignorant
people.
For
instance,
I
asked
how
they
said
in
Gypsy
"Will
you
have
a
cigar?"
Later,
however,
I
They
said
"Will
tuti
lella
tav."
discovered
this
phrase
meant
"Will
you
have
a
smoke,"
not
"Will
you
have
a
cigar."
Ignorant
people
also
soon
tire
when
teaching
you,
and
mislead
by
replies
are
very
their
answers,
saying
"yes"
often
when
they
should
say
"no,"
simply
because
that
happens
to
make
it
easier
for
them.
Frequently
their
amusing,
and
I
it
is
difficult
to
get
an
answer
to
your
question.
Once
will
I
remember,
asked
a
Gypsy
how
he
said
in
us.
you
take
for
that
horse?"
fifty
dollars."
The
horse
was
near
"No,"
I
Romani
"How
much
He
answered
"One
I
hundred
and
said,
"you
do
not
understand
me.
1
They
are
all
This
is
the
sixth
article
on
Gypsies
and
their
language
published
by
the
Library.
They
appeared
in
the
Bulletin
for
edited
by
Dr.
George
F.
Black
from
the
Sinclair
mss.
in
the
Library.
Each
has
October,
1915;
December,
1915;
May,
1916;
November,
1916;
January,
1917;
and
May,
1917.
been
published
separately.
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