THE GIPSIES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO JAMES CRABB, THE GIPSIES' FRIEND. LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY. 1842. 603. THE Author has always taken great in terest in the wild people of whom she writes. Much that is in the tale is founded on fact. Should any object to some peculiarities of feeling and opinion, let them remember that they are gipsies, and not roof-people. THE GIPSIES. CHAPTER I. GABRIEL AND ELLA. At the bottom of a grassy lane, marked by many a turf fire, gipsy Gabriel, gipsy Benjamin, and gipsy Daniel, pitched their tents; they were all Stanleys, and they were brothers, and each brother had a wife and many children, so that the tribe covered much ground. The gipsies had pitched their tents in a romantic spot; Gabriel's was under the old oak tree, near the gate that looks over the moor. Gipsy Ben's to the right of the holly trees, close down by the brook, near the mound; and gipsy Dan's was hid B |