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[331] The song of "Johnny Faa, the Gipsy Laddie," appears in the
Waverly anecdotes. It might have been included in the Minstrelsy of
the Scottish Border.

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| TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES |
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| The spelling, hyphenation and capitalisation of the original work |
| have been maintained, including inconsistencies (also in the lists |
| of words), except when mentioned below. |
| Examples of such inconsistencies are o/ou (as in colour/color), |
| 22d/22nd, clannish/clanishness/clanism, Couter-park/Coulter-park, |
| Tschingenes/Tschengenes, depot/depôt, wagon/waggon, inconsistent |
| use of periods after the name of monarchs (Charles II/Charles II.),|
| (John) Lobbs'/Lobb's, etc. |
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| The lay-out of the index has not been changed. |
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| Doubtful issues have been verified with another scan of the same |
| edition of the book. |
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| Textual remarks: the author uses "barrier" in several places where |
| "barrio" might possibly be more appropriate. This has not been |
| changed. The same applies to the author's use of "Pons Assinorum". |
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| Changes made to the original text: |
| some minor obvious typographical errors (including punctuation) |
| have been corrected silently; |
| Footnote [9]: Abbè changed to Abbé; |
| Page 76: Tereros changed to Toreros; |
| Footnote [40]: Annals changed to Annales; |
| Page 161: young laid changed to young lad; |
| Footnote [148]: the Gipsy women changed to the Gipsy woman; |
| Footnote [151]: Hudegger changed to Heidegger; |
| Page 337 (table): Doooe changed to Dooce as in Hoyland's work; |
| Index: |
| Several page numbers inserted where they were lacking; |
| references to footnotes standardised as _n_xxx (spaces deleted); |
| spelling changed to conform to spelling in text: Graeme to Græme; |
| Charterhouse moor to Charter-house moor; Esk-dale moor to Eskdale |
| moor, Fitz James to Fitz-James; Free-masons to Freemasons; |
| The philosophy of the preservation ...: page number 33 changed to |
| 23; |
| MIXED GIPSIES ...: page number 391 moved to proper place. |
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End of Project Gutenberg's A History of the Gipsies, by Walter Simson

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