hatch the tan, 1886

[George Thompson]

I don't see anything in HDAS or CDS that matches this:

        [gypsies camping in Brooklyn: “a people who prefer to ‘hatch the tan,’ or pitch the tent, to living in comfortable houses”]
        The World, August 15, 1886, p. 14, col. 2

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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