Gypsies and Greyhounds

'Lurchers and greyhounds lay underneath many a vehicle, travelling families of fowls were making themselves at home around the fences, and smoke from wood fires, shouts of fighting children, and barking dogs filled the air. Near the oak-tree in the middle of the field stood a capacious mission tent, the presence of which did not seem to have any check on the language used by men, women and children. "I'll pull yer little lights out an' show 'em to yer!" yelled a mother to an enraged and screaming child with a dirty face. [...] Here was a fresh scene which an East Anglian would not see in Cornwall and probably not even in Kent, for these pickers mostly travelled up from Bristol and West Dorsetshire, Salisbury Plain and Herefordshire. [...] Seeing this swarming crowd of humanity and knowing that [...] I should soon find all the models I needed, I made arrangements to get my painting-things over on the following day. [...] I was painting those "gyppoes", as I called them, right to the end of hop-piking. Never in my life have I been so filled with a desire to work as I was then. The families that I got to know had picturesque children, dogs and horses. [...] Nobody could beat their style of dress' (see A.J. Munnings, An Artist's Life, Bungay, 1950, pp. 288-89).