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Updated: June 27, 2025
All which villainy would be prevented, in my opinion, were the Calo language not spoken; for what but the word of Calo could have induced the donkey to behave in such an unaccountable manner?"
"There is no Calo house in this place," said Antonio; "we will therefore go to the posada of the Busne, and refresh ourselves, man and beast." We entered the kitchen and sat down at the boards, calling for wine and bread. There were two ill-looking fellows in the kitchen, smoking cigars; I said something to Antonio in the Calo language.
"Those people seem no friends to the gypsies," said I to Antonio, when the two bullies had departed, "nor to the Calo language either." "May evil glanders seize their nostrils," said Antonio; "they have been jonjabadoed by our people.
"There I stood in the middle of the room, laden with all her purchases, and not knowing where I was to put them down. She tumbled them all onto the floor, and threw her arms round my neck, saying: "'I pay my debts, I pay my debts! That's the law of the Cales.* * Calo, feminine calli, plural cales. Literally "black," the name the gipsies apply to themselves in their own language.
'What language is that? asked Miss Whichello, who came up at this moment with a smile and a word for all; 'it sounds like swearing. 'I'd like to see anyone swear here, said Mrs Pansey, grimly. 'Set your mind at rest, dear lady, I was speaking Romany the black language the calo jib which the gipsies brought from the East when they came to plunder the hen-coops of Europe.
Is it not forbidden by the law of the land in which we are, even as it is forbidden for a gypsy to enter the mercado? I tell you what, friend, if I hear another word of Calo come from your mouth, I will cudgel your bones and send you flying over the house-tops with a kick of my foot." "You would do right," said his companion; "the insolence of these gypsies is no longer to be borne.
About forty years ago I was with my ro in Ceuta, for he was still a soldier of the king, and he said to me one day, 'I am tired of this place where there is no bread and less water, I will escape and turn Corahano; this night I will kill my sergeant and flee to the camp of the Moor. 'Do so, said I, 'my chabo, and as soon as may be I will follow you and become a Corahani. That same night he killed his sergeant, who five years before had called him Calo and cursed him, then running to the wall he dropped from it, and amidst many shots he escaped to the land of the Corahai, as for myself, I remained in the presidio of Ceuta as a suttler, selling wine and repani to the soldiers.
And they say sooth, that there is an angel within them. For there be two manner of angels, a good and an evil, as the Greeks say, Cacho and Calo. This Cacho is the wicked angel, and Calo is the good angel. But the tother is not the good angel, but the wicked angel that is within the idols to deceive them and for to maintain them in their error.
"What is that I hear?" said one of the fellows, who was distinguished by an immense pair of moustaches. "What is that I hear? is it in Calo that you are speaking before me, and I a Chalan and national? Accursed gypsy, how dare you enter this posada and speak before me in that speech?
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