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'Gypsy gentleman, say I to one of them, 'what will you have for that donkey? 'I will have ten dollars for it, Caballero nacional, says the gypsy; 'it is the best donkey in all Spain. 'I should like to see its paces, say I. 'That you shall, most valorous! says the gypsy, and jumping upon its back, he puts it to its paces, first of all whispering something into its ears in Calo, and truly the paces of the donkey are most wonderful, such as I have never seen before.
'He is gone to see his kindred among the Moors, says another. 'I just saw him running over the field, in the direction of , with the devil close behind him, says a third. In a word, I am tricked. I wish to dispose of the donkey; no one, however, will buy him; he is a Calo donkey, and every person avoids him.
'He called hisself so, dearie, but I niver knowed one of that gentle Romany as had a Gentile name. We sticks to our own mos'ly. Job! I shud think so. 'Are you sure he was a gipsy? 'Course I am, my noble Gorgio! He could patter the calo jib with the best of 'um. He know'd lots wot the Gentiles don' know, an' he had the eagle beak an' the peaked eye.
'Please to get me the last edition of Hughes's Letters; and try to get Dennis upon Blackmore, and upon Calo, and any thing of the same writer against Pope. Our materials are defective. 'As Waller professed to have imitated Fairfax, do you think a few pages of Fairfax would enrich our edition? Few readers have seen it, and it may please them. But it is not necessary.
After the Gitanos had discussed several jockey plans, and settled some private bargains amongst themselves, we all gathered round a huge brasero of flaming charcoal, and began conversing sobre las cosas de Egypto, when I proposed that, as we had no better means of amusing ourselves, we should endeavour to turn into the Calo language some piece of devotion, that we might see whether this language, the gradual decay of which I had frequently heard them lament, was capable of expressing any other matters than those which related to horses, mules, and Gypsy traffic.
But how am I to journey? I have no horse, for you doubtless want your own." "The burra," I replied, "appears both savage and vicious." "She is both, brother, and on that account I bought her; a savage and vicious beast has generally four excellent legs. You are a Calo, brother, and can manage her; you shall therefore purchase the savage burra, giving my daugher Antonia a baria of gold.
However, brother, you did wrong to speak to me in Calo, in a posada like this; it is a forbidden language; for, as I have often told you, the king has destroyed the law of the Cales. Towards evening we drew near to a large town or village. "That is Merida," said Antonio, "formerly, as the Busne say, a mighty city of the Corahai.
"What place is that on the hill yonder?" said I to Antonio, at the expiration of an hour, as we prepared to descend a deep valley. "That is Jaraicejo," said Antonio; "a bad place it is and a bad place it has ever been for the Calo people." "If it is such a bad place," said I, "I hope we shall not have to pass through it."
If Lambert did not love his beautiful model, it was perfectly plain that the beautiful model loved Lambert. "O baro duvel atch' pa leste!" said Chaldea, and clapped her slim hands. "I wish you wouldn't speak the calo jib to me, Chaldea," said Lambert, smiling on the beautiful eager face. "You know I don't understand it." "Nor I," put in Miss Greeby in her manly tones.
Jentham, he come 'ere to patter the calo jib and drink with us. He said as he had to see some Gentile on that night! La! la! la! she piped thinly, 'an evil night for him! 'On Sunday night the night he was killed? 'Yes, pretty one. The Gorgio was to give him money for somethin' he knowed. 'Who was the Gorgio? 'I don' know, lovey! I don' know!
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