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lunch buckets.”
“He gave her a crack, I’ll tell you,” Hodgson went on about her brother and the gypsy woman. “Most of what they wanted was food. They’d come to the house and talk to us in the yard. My mother - she was a big, strong woman. She stood at the door and rolled up her long sleeves so that they could see her big arms. She said, ‘Don’t come in, stay there in the yard. I’ll give you what you want but don’t come in.’”
Later, Lucy said that her mother grew impatient with the gypsy begging and gave them a bag of sour cabbage that she had planned to feed the hogs.
Gypsies temporarily based in Amissville may have preferred the George Tolbert household where Doris Tolbert, now Doris Jennings, lived.
“We were not taught to hate them, we were taught they were people, just like us, only they lived so differently,” said Jennings. “Of course, this was 70 years ago. Maybe they didn’t bother us because we were poorer than they were. But if they needed a wagon wheel and we had one, or anything else they could use, we’d trade it to them for something. They didn’t use money
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