Gypsies are as inexplicable as they are dirty. Scholars do not know precisely whence they came, theorize at length on their Eastern origin. Their English name is derived from the word "Egyptians" and some gypsies speak of themselves as "Pharaoh's People," claim to have originated in a non-existent "Little Egypt." Their language resembles a Hindu dialect with liberal borrowing from Greek, Persian, Armenian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Czech, German, French, English, et al. Gypsies have a great many kings and queens. In 1930 in Madison. N. J., Queen Louisa Harrison, recognized by...
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