A WANDERING CHILDHOOD We do not need to inquire too deeply as to Borrow's possible gypsy origin in order to account for his vagabond propensities.

The lives of his parents before his birth, and the story of his own boyhood, sufficiently account for the dominant tendency in Borrow.

His father and mother were married in 1793.

Almost every year they changed their domicile.

In 1801 a son was born to them--they still continued to change their domicile.