Field And Hedgerow By Richard Jefferies




























































































 -  Besides
the gipsies' fair, the little shopkeepers in the villages send out
circulars to the most outlying cottage announcing the - Page 195
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Besides The Gipsies' Fair, The Little Shopkeepers In The Villages Send Out Circulars To The Most Outlying Cottage Announcing The Annual Sale At An Immense Sacrifice; Anything To Get The Hop-Pickers' Cash; And The Packmen Come Round, Too, With Jewelry And Lace And Finery.

The village by the forest has been haunted by the gipsies for a century; its population in the last thirty years has much increased, and it is very curious to observe how the gipsy element has impregnated the place.

Not only are the names gipsy, the faces are gipsy; the black coarse hair, high cheek-bones, and peculiar forehead linger; even many of the shopkeepers have a distinct trace, and others that do not show it so much are known to be nevertheless related.

Until land became so valuable - it is now again declining - these forest grounds of heath and bracken were free to all comers, and great numbers of squatters built huts and inclosed pieces of land. They cleared away the gorse and heath and grubbed the fir-tree stumps, and found, after a while, that the apparently barren sand could grow a good sward. No one would think anything could flourish on such an arid sand, exposed at a great height on the open hill to the cutting winds. Contrary, however, to appearances, fair crops, and sometimes two crops of hay are yielded, and there is always a good bite for cattle. These squatters consequently came to keep cows, sometimes one and sometimes two - anticipating the three acres and a cow; and it is very odd to hear the women at the hop-picking telling each other they are going to churn to-night.

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