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Updated: May 5, 2025
The gipsy cant is the remnant of a pure and ancient language; we all occasionally use terms taken from this remarkable tongue, and, when we speak of a "cad," or "making a mull," or "bosh," or "shindy," or "cadger" or "bamboozling," or "mug," or "duffer," or "tool," or "queer," or "maunder," or "loafer," or "bung," we are using pure gipsy.
The proverb says 'there is much ado when cadgers ride. I do not know precisely what 'cadger' means, but I imagine it to be a character like me, liable to head-ache, to sea-sickness, to all the infirmities 'that flesh is heir to, and a few others besides; the friends and relations of cadgers should therefore use all soft persuasions to induce them to remain at home.
But hullo! as nobody's come forward this morning, Krevin's treating himself to a drink! That's his way he'll get his drink for nothing, if he can, but, if he can't, he's always got money. Old cadger!" Brent was watching Krevin Crood. As Peppermore had just said, nobody had joined Krevin at the bar.
The uncared-for clothes, the aggressive, grizzled beard, and the furtive, evasive eye of the new-comer bespoke the professional cadger, the man who would undergo hours of humiliating tale- spinning and rebuff rather than adventure on half a day's decent work.
Then he asked my brother, "What dost thou want, O blind man?" and he answered, "Something for the Almighty's sake." "Allah open for thee some other door!" "O thou! why not say so when I was below stairs?" "O cadger, why not answer me when I first called to thee?" "And what meanest thou to do for me now?" "There is nothing in the house to give thee." "Then take me down the stair."
People come to Boveyhayne in the summer, but they can't spoil it because the villagers don't depend on visitors for a living: they depend on themselves ... and the sea. There isn't a man in Boveyhayne who is pretending to be a fisherman and is really a cadger on summer visitors. Some of them won't be bothered to take people out in rowing-boats they feel that that is work for the old.
"Naething but the doup o' ane, Jean. It 's no to ca' a mune. "Ay, lantren lats them see whaur ye are, an' haud oot o' yer gait," said Jean, who happened not to relish going out that night. "Troth, wuman, ye 're richt there!" returned her mistress, with cheerful assent. "The mair they see o' ye, the less they 'll meddle wi' ye caird or cadger.
He was not often the last in a conspiracy. His arrival had for the moment a sedative effect. "Here's Curly! Here's Curly!" "Weel, is't a' sattled?" asked he. "She's condemned, but no execute yet," said Grumpie. "Hoo are we to win at her?" asked Cadger. "That's jist the pint," said Divot. "We canna weel kill her in her ain yard," suggested Houghie. "Na.
He then strove to propitiate them, by mentioning the intended present of his companion. "In my young days," said the old lady, "a man wad hae been ashamed to come back frae the hill without a buck hanging on each side o' his horse, like a cadger carrying calves."
I didn't understand more than 'arf of wot 'e was saying. But I tumbled to that much. It's all up with you and me and Amelia and the dogs and the little 'ome. You're a-goin' to be a gentleman, you are an' I'll have to take to the road by meself and be a poor beast of a cadger again. That's what it'll come to, I know." "Don't you put yourself about," said Dickie calmly.
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