Under the action of widely different causes, the gipsy has also a different cast of mind from our own, and a radical moral difference.

A very few years ago, when I was on the Plains of Western Kansas, old Black Kettle, a famous Indian chief said in a speech, "I am not a white man, I am a _wolf_.

I was born like a wolf on the prairies.

I have lived like a wolf, and I shall die like one." Such is the wild gipsy.

Ever poor and hungry, theft seems to him, in the trifling easy manner in which he practises it, simply a necessity.