Gypsy Breynton

Having been asked to write a preface to the new edition of the Gypsy books, I am not a little perplexed. I was hardly more than a girl myself, when I recorded the history of this young person; and I find it hard, at this distance, to photograph her as she looks, or ought to look to-day. She does not sit still long enough to be «taken.» I see a lively girl in pretty short dresses and very long stockings, – quite a Tom-boy, if I remember rightly. She paddles a raft, she climbs a tree, she ska