School: Hackettstown (2)

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1. Travelling Folk (continued)

   

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   get milk, butter, and eggs from the farmers' houses.

   The tramps accept six- pences and pennies, old clothes, and pieces of bread. The tinkers also ask for old clothes, pennies, and bread.
   The gypsies travel around in caravans and they always go in families. The tinkers travel i spring carts. They always travel in bands. The gypsies and the tinkers hve favorite places for stopping at, they choose a secluded sheltered place. The tramps come singly. Occasionally disabled soilders come around. There is an old one - armed soilder who comes around. He tries to make a living by selling camphor balls and almanacs.

   There is a powerful tribe of tinkers, who frequent this locality. Their name is Cash. They go to fairs and buy

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
         1. travellers (~3,023)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Violet Seabrooke

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs O' Gorman

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Hacketstown, Co. Carlow