told me, that he knew several sensible People who believed these Gypsies now and then foretold very strange things; and for half an Hour together appeared more jocund than ordinary. In the Height of his good-Humour, meeting a common Beggar upon the Road who was no Conjurer, as he went to relieve him he found his Pocket was picked: That being a Kind of Palmistry at which this Race of Vermin are very dextrous.
might here entertain my Reader with Historical Remarks on this idle profligate People,
who
infest all the Countries of
Europe
, and live in the midst of Governments in a kind of Commonwealth by themselves.
instead of entering into Observations of this Nature, I shall fill the remaining Part of my Paper with a Story