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Rock
County, Wisconsin
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"Gpysies
at Oakdale School"
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By Earl Dane Kidder; Courtesy
of his grandson, Clark
Kidder |
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- I remember the time twelve wagons full
of gypsies pulled in the schoolyard at the
- Oakdale school. Otto STRIEGL
tried his darndest to get them to leave, but the police had to
let them stay for twelve days by law, because one of the women
had just had a baby.
- I sat and watched four of the girls
jump on every farmer that went by and rob
- them. One of the girls would hold him
down and the others would rob him. I nearly died laughin'. They
robbed the neighborhood blind. They stole cattle and would come
in to my folks' barn and milk the cows every morning. They'd
take my mom's bread and cream right out of the pantry! My mom
was ready to kill 'em, but my dad just laughed about it. Us kids
used to take off runnin' and hide behind the gooseberry bushes
up on the hill behind the house. We were scared to death of them.
That's how our folks used to control us kids. They'd tell us
if we didn't behave, they'd give us to the gypsies.
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Last
updated: June 18, 2006
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