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"Yes, I repeat you are a wonderful cook! But then everything seems so wonderful to me this place, for instance so strange and so solitary!" "It is!" she answered, leaning her chin on her hands and staring at me across the table. "That's why I runs away here to hide from the chals or when in any trouble wi' old Azor yes, 'tis a very lonely place, which do make me wonder if you be afeard o' ghosts?"
And they welled apopli adree the sala and lelled pash sar tacho. And ever sense dovo divvus it's a rakkerben o' the Rommany chals, "Sar tulloben; jal an the sala an' tute shall lel your pash." Three or four years ago one of the Smiths found a great dead pig in a lane. And just as he found it, some Gipsies came by and saw this Rommany.
"And if you throw red pepper where dogs make water, they will not go there any more after they smell it, and you can keep it clean." "Well," I replied, "I see that a great many things can be learned from the Gipsies. Tell me, now, when you wanted a night's lodging did you ever go to a union?" "Kek, rya; the tramps that jal langs the drum an' mang at the unions are kek Rommany chals.
I tell you what, brother, frequently as I have sat under a hedge in spring or summer time, and heard the cuckoo, I have thought that we chals and cuckoos are alike in many respects, but especially in character. Everybody speaks ill of us both, and everybody is glad to see both of us again. "'Yes, Jasper, but there is some difference between men and cuckoos; men have souls, Jasper!
"Of hard old ale," I interposed, "which, according to my mind, is better than all the wine in the world." "Well said, Romany Rye," said the jockey, "just my own opinion; now, William, make yourself scarce." The waiter withdrew, and I said to the jockey, "How did you become acquainted with the Romany chals?"
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.
I do know those people." "Romany chals!" said the jockey; "whew! I begin to smell a rat." "What do you mean by smelling a rat?" said I. "I'll bet a crown," said the jockey, "that you be the young chap what certain folks call 'the Romany Rye." "Ah!" said I, "how came you to know that name?" "Be not you he?" said the jockey. "Why, I certainly have been called by that name."
And this is so well known that many Rommany Chals, not of our family, come and join themselves to us, living with us for a time, in order to better themselves, more especially those of the poorer sort, who have little of their own. Tawno is one of these.’ ‘Is that fine fellow poor?’ ‘One of the poorest, brother. Handsome as he is, he has not a horse of his own to ride on.
One of the last surviving chals of an old East Anglian gipsy family, in reply to a remark of the writer said, not long ago, “Yes, it is quite true that the old race of gipsies is dying out; there are very few of the real old Romanies to be met with at the present day. ‘Mumpers’ there are in plenty; folks who sell baskets and peddle clothes-pegs; but they are not of the true gipsy breed.
"At the expiration of his clerkship he knew little of the law, but he was well versed in languages, being not only a good Greek and Latin scholar, but acquainted with French, Italian, Spanish, all the Celtic and Gothic dialects, and likewise with the peculiar language of the English Romany Chals or gypsies."
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