More Voices of Tinkers: "Well, now I don't gossip about no one just in case the wind is shifty like a weasel or the lake is round like a hollow ear. My ears burn never 'cause to tell you the truth if you know what I mean I like being respected." "I see no harm in letting the children do for themselves with a little bit of education, but if it's all the same to you, they gets a fair amount of that at home with all they have to do -- shouting for the horses in the morning and calling for their dogs in the field and they do knows how to tie a rope to more than a little dog, and how to skin a cat; they knows how to catch a fish in the river with a piece of grass, how to throw a whistling sound to the colt, a whistling coat to the foxes and how to take a chicken from the jaws of a stoat, & 'tis no mean education they gets out of the hammering of tin and the hammering of their mother's voice on their little animal ears..." "Schools can fix children in a bad way you know. It's better you'd keep them out of it betimes. Some of them treats their children terrible. They don't give them what they want in the line of nourishment or contentment..." "We're queer ways travelling people. One night we'll stay and one night we'll not and we'll have the whole camp gone up and thrown into a cart, cocks and roosters and goats and all the crockery and the kettle bar and all your belongings heaped together in a heap on the back of the cart." -- Excerpts of conversation, "Irish Tinkers," Wiedel & O'Fearadhaigh