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'Pre yeck divvus a hotchewitchi dicked a chillico adree the puv, and the chillico pukkered lesco, "Mor jal pauli by the kushto wastus, or the hunters' graias will chiv tute adree the chick, mullo; an' if you jal the waver rikk by the bongo wast, dovo's a Rommany tan adoi, and the Rommany chals will haw tute."
He smiled as he remembered telling Fleda that once, when he was a little boy, he had eaten hedgehog, and she had asked him if he remembered the Gipsy name for hedgehog hotchewitchi was the word. Now, as the shapeless creature made for its hole, it was significant of the history of his life during the past Summer.
He smiled as he remembered telling Fleda that once, when he was a little boy, he had eaten hedgehog, and she had asked him if he remembered the Gipsy name for hedgehog hotchewitchi was the word. Now, as the shapeless creature made for its hole, it was significant of the history of his life during the past Summer.
It is almost needless to point out how closely these ideas agree with those of many Hindus. The Gipsy eats every and any thing except horseflesh. Among themselves, while talking Rommany, they will boast of having eaten mullo baulors, or pigs that have died a natural death, and hotchewitchi, or hedgehog, as did the belle of a Gipsy party to me at Walton-on-Thames in the summer of 1872.
"I should hunt for a hotchewitchi, a hedge-hog, and I should be sure to find one; there's no better eating." Whereupon assuming his left hand to be an imaginary hedge-hog, he proceeded to score and turn and dress it for ideal cooking with a case- knife. "And what had you for dinner to-day?" I inquired. "Some cocks' heads. They're very fine very fine indeed!"
A hedgehog crossed the path here, and it brought those days back to me Charley Long and Aunt Cynthy and all. Yes, the first time I ever ate hedgehog; was in Aunt Cynthy's house. Hi-yi, as old Tekewani says, but it was good!" "What is the Romany word for hedgehog?" Fleda asked in a low tone. "Hotchewitchi," he replied instantly. "That's right, isn't it?"
Penned the hotchewitchi, "I'd rather jal with the Rommany chals, an' be hawed by foki that kaum mandy, than be pirraben apre by chals that dick kaulo apre mandy." It's kushtier for a tacho Rom to be mullered by a Rommany pal than to be nashered by the Gorgios.
A hedgehog crossed the path here, and it brought those days back to me Charley Long and Aunt Cynthy and all. Yes, the first time I ever ate hedgehog; was in Aunt Cynthy's house. Hi-yi, as old Tekewani says, but it was good!" "What is the Romany word for hedgehog?" Fleda asked in a low tone. "Hotchewitchi," he replied instantly. "That's right, isn't it?"
"It's quite the same, sir porcupine or hedgehog. I know perfectly well what you mean." "Porcupines," I resumed, "are very common in America. The Chippeways call them hotchewitchi." This Rommany word was a plumper for the Gipsy, and the twinkle of his eye the smallest star of mirth in the darkest night of gravity I ever beheld in my life was lovely.
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