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The New Forest: its History and its Scenery.

CHAPTER XV.

THE GYPSY AND THE WEST-SAXON.

Many people have a vague notion that the gipsies constitute the most important element of the population of the New Forest, whereas, of course, they are mere cyphers. An amusing enough

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