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George Borrow and His Circle

CHAPTER IV
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We drove through the west part of Dunbar, which was very full, and where we were literally pelted with small nosegays, till the carriage was full of them; then for some distance past the village of Belhaven, Knockindale Hill (Knockenhair Park), where were stationed in their best attire the queen of the gypsies, an oldish woman with a yellow handkerchief on her head, and a youngish, very dark, and truly gypsy-like woman in velvet and a red shawl, and another woman.

The queen is a thorough gypsy, with a scarlet cloak and a yellow handkerchief around her head.

Men in red hunting-coats, all very dark, and all standing on a platform here, bowed and waved their handkerchiefs.

George Smith told Mr.Myers that "the queen" was Sanspirella, that the "gypsy-like woman in velvet and a red shawl" was Bidi, and the other woman Delaia.

The men were Ambrose, Tommy, and Alfred.' [27] I am indebted to an admirable article by Thomas William Thompson in the _Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society_, New Series, vol.iii, No, 3, January 1910, for information concerning the later life of Jasper Petulengro.
[28] _Phrenological Observations on the Cerebral Development of David Haggart, who was lately executed at Edinburgh for murder, and whose life has since been published._ By George Combe, Esq.


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