Vagrants of Wicklow continued
"'That's a fine boy, God bless him."
"'How do you know it's a boy,' says my woman, "when it's only the head of him you see?"
'" I know rightly," says the tinker, "and it's the first too."
'Then my wife was going to slate me for bringing in people to bewitch her child, and I had to turn the lot of them out to finish the job in the lane.'
I asked him where most of the tinkers came from that are met with in Wicklow.
'They come from every part,' he said. 'They're gallous lads for walking round through the world. One time I seen fifty of them above on the road. to Rathdangan, and they all match-making and marrying themselves for the year that was to come. One man would take such a woman, and say he was going such roads and places, stopping at this fair and another fair, till he'd meet them again at such a place, when the spring was coming on…"
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