Gipsies’ Lament
is J LONDON, January 9. I Gipsies from three counties gathered J* in the churchyard of St. George’s, it Fordington, to say their last farewell a to 75-year-old Ben Beutham, gipsy is chief, killed in a motor-car accident. n The burial service was conducted by d the vicar of Fondington, G. L. O. * Jessop, son of the famous cricketer, il. Ho led the procession of gipsies—y headed by Mark, a dwarf no higher .t than the hem of his surplice, and a t favourite of the old chief. At the close P of the service, tho dwarf, sobbing 1. bitterly, sprinkled a handful of earth t* on the coffin. r Ben Bentham was known to the d people of Dorset only as a travelling chimney sweep, but this week hund dreds of people, some in cars, lined the | approaches of the cemetery. Custom a demands that the caravan of a dead ° gipsy bo burned, but the Bentham tribe, which consists of three families, h is too poor to lose such a shelter. r night on tho windswept hill at Upsey, o the leaderlesa tribe gathered round the 18 camp fire, praying and chanting a o Romany lament. In tho morning they were ‘'moved 0n. 14
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 2
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