Quotes About Gipsies

H'sh. It is neither bullock nor buck he hunts to-night," said Mother Wolf; "it is Man." The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to roll from every quarter of the compass. It was the noise that bewilders wood-cutters, and gipsies sleeping in the open, and makes them run sometimes into the very mouth of the tiger.

Because of her gender she is banished—first to the sidelines, and then from the tent altogether. Her empathy with tramps and gipsies reveals that, even in her position at the tent flap, she feels transitory, impoverished, powerless.

There is a connection between Dal mations and gipsies. Many people believe that it was the gipsies who first brought Dalmatians to England, long, long ago. And nothing like as long ago as that, there were gipsies who travelled round England with Dalmatians trained to do tricks. And these performing dogs earned money for the gipsies.