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From the introduction:
SARISHAN
"Sarishan" is the Gypsy word which means "How do you do?" the world over; for the Gypsies, although they are wanderers throughout the countries of the earth, always speak their own language, as well as that of the country in which they are living. The first Gypsies, it is thought, came from India, leaving there early in the fifteenth century; and since that time, generation after generation, they have continued to roam, traveling in caravans and camping by the roadside–many of them having never slept in a house–happy to have all outdoors for their home.
The men are peddlers, tinkers, horse dealers, and makers of baskets; the women are fortune tellers; and all are musicians and story tellers. To the Gypsy story tellers we owe our gratitude for the gift of fairy tales. They brought with them from India the first fairy stories; and, as they wandered from the East and spread themselves throughout the Western countries, they not only added to their own store, but they gave of their tales to other peoples and races. Many of our fairy tales have thus been brought to us, down through the ages, by the wandering Gypsies, as they went their way.
CORA MORRIS.
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