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EVER since the time of Borrow the mystery of the gypsy-folk has intrigued those of us who have seen, and still occasionally see, their caravans encamped in some lovely dell; and Borrow would have been the first to welcome the serious study which since his day has been devoted to these people so that now we know much more about them than he could. The mystery, however, still remains. The current number of the Journal of the Gypsy-Lore Society makes interesting reading, its subject-matter ranging from the sixteenth century in Transylvania to modern times in Spain. Especially dramatic, if of no great scientific importance, is the account of an unusual friendship struck up between an Englishman and a gypsy youth as the result of help given in a brawl in a Montparnasse estaminet. The two eventually travelled together to visit the gypsy's parents in Madrid-shortly before the lad himself was killed in an accident.
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Gypsy-Lore. Nature 147, 603–604 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147603b0
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