The gypsies are a group of people. They do not have any fixed Home. They wander about from place to place and live in-tents. They were originally natives of India. But as they reached England from Egypt, the English took them for Egyptians. This is why they, were believed to possess strange powers. They could tell your fortune by reading the palm of your hand. It was thought they stole. I little children to train them in their way of life. Whenever a child got ‘lost, it was thought that it had been taken away by gypsies. So they
| Were arrested and sent for trial. This attitude towards the gypsies has:' gradually changed.
