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Petulengro and Tawno Chikno. And as I sat conning the newspaper three individuals entered the room, and seated themselves in the box at the farther end of which I was. They were all three very well dressed; two of them elderly gentlemen, the third a young man about my own age, or perhaps a year or two older.
'You are one of them, said I, 'whom people call 'Just so, said Jasper; 'but never mind what people call us. 'And that tall handsome man on the hill, whom you whispered? I suppose he's one of ye. What is his name? 'Tawno Chikno, said Jasper, 'which means the small one; we call him such because he is the biggest man of all our nation.
I was about to fall asleep also, when I heard the sound of music and song. Piramus was playing on the fiddle, whilst Mrs. Chikno, who had a voice of her own, was singing in tones sharp enough, but of great power, a gypsy song: To mande shoon ye Romany chals Who besh in the pus about the yag, I'll pen how we drab the baulo, I'll pen how we drab the baulo.
It is not every one who has been brought up in the school of Mr. Petulengro and Tawno Chikno. All I can say is, that if I were an Armenian, and had two hundred thousand pounds to back me, I would attack the Persian. 'Hem! said the Armenian.
A man, by gypsy law, brother, is allowed to kick and beat his wife, and to bury her alive, if he thinks proper. I am a gypsy, and have nothing to say against the law." "But what has Mikailia Chikno to say about it?" "She is a cripple, brother, the only cripple amongst the Roman people: so she is allowed to do and say as she pleases.
Petulengro; who, having refilled the cup, now emptied it at a draught. 'Your health in Rommany, brother, said Tawno Chikno, to whom the cup came next. 'The Rommany Rye, said a third. 'The Gypsy gentlemen, exclaimed a fourth, drinking. And then they all sang in chorus: 'Here the Gypsy gemman see, With his Roman jib and his rome and dree Rome and dree, rum and dry Rally round the Rommany Rye.
'Your health, gentlemen, said I, as I took the cup which Mr. Petulengro handed to me. 'Aukko tu pios adrey Rommanis. Here is your health in Rommany, brother, said Mr. Petulengro; who, having refilled the cup, now emptied it at a draught. 'Your health in Rommany, brother, said Tawno Chikno, to whom the cup came next. 'The Rommany Rye, said a third.
"I do not see Tawno," said I, looking around; "where is he?" "Where, indeed!" said Mrs. Chikno; "I don't know; he who countenances him in the roving line can best answer." "He will be here anon," said Mr. Petulengro; "he has merely ridden down a by-road to show a farmer a two-year-old colt; she heard me give him directions, but she can't be satisfied." "I can't indeed," said Mrs. Chikno.
But I have had the advantage of keeping good company, and therefore " "Meklis," said Mrs. Chikno, "pray drop all that, sister; I believe I have kept as good company as yourself; and with respect to that offer with which you frequently fatigue those who keeps company with you, I believe, after all, it was something in the roving and uncertificated line." II. The Parting of the Ways
"Well," said the latter, "one thing I will say, which is, that there is only one on earth worthy to stand up in front of this she, and that is the beauty of the world, as far as man flesh is concerned, Tawno Chikno; what a pity he did not come down!" "Tawno Chikno," said Mrs.
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