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‘Perfectly,’ said I, ‘and their language too.’ ‘I wish I did,’ said the man; ‘I would give ten pounds and more to know the language of the Rommany Chals. There’s some of it in the language of the pea and thimble; how it came there I don’t know, but so it is. I wish I knew it, but it is difficult. You’ll make a capital bonnet; shall we close?’ ‘What would the wages be?’ I demanded.
I wish the chals 'ud stick as close to the chies. After much persuasion, however, I induced the Gypsy to let me accompany her, promising to abide implicitly by her instructions. Even while we were talking the rain had ceased, and patches of stars were shining brilliantly. These patches got rapidly larger.
I was not older than you when that happened; yet our people said they had never a better krallis to contrive and plan for them, and to keep them in order. 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.
"Romans?" said I, puzzled. "Aye, Romans. The Romany, gipsies, the poor folk." "Are you a gipsy, then?" "I guess so! Though old Azor, of the Romany rawni Camlo, do ever tell I'm no true Roman. So mayhap I'm not. However, when I grows up I takes to my little knife by reason of the chals aye, and uses it too, otherwise I might ha' been tamed by now instead o' being free to choose.
Pash-ratis pen their kokeros for Gorgios mongin Gorgios, and for Rommany mongin Rommany chals. Then he went among the pigeons and said, "How are you, brothers?" And they asked him, "Where did you get those black trousers and sleeves?" And he said, "I stole 'em from those wretches the rooks." Half-breeds call themselves Gorgio among Gorgios, and Gipsy among Gipsies.
He was bold but not rude: on the contrary he was most vigilantly polite. He took snuff, though he detested it; he avoided politics as much as possible: "No, no!" he said, "I have lived too long with Romany chals and Petulengres to be of any politics save Gypsy politics," in spite of what he had said in '32 and was to say again in '57.
Therefore, when the woman had come to the stile, I held out my hand and helped her over. "What says the Spanish poet Calderon?" said I. "I doubt not that you have read the couplet which has been thus Englished: Oh, maiden, may I humbly pray That I may help you on your way." The woman blushed, but said nothing. "Where," I asked, "are the Romany chals and the Romany chis?"
Whereupon Jasper questions him and gets him to admit that the Gypsies are very much like the cuckoos, roguish, chaffing birds that everybody is glad to see again: "'You would wish to turn the cuckoos into barn-door fowls, wouldn't you? "'Can't say I should, Jasper, whatever some people might wish. "'And the chals and chies into radical weavers and factory wenches, hey, brother?
I was not older than you when that happened; yet our people said they had never a better krallis to contrive and plan for them and to keep them in order. 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.
Nowhere else can the swarthy chals find gorgios so ready to purchase a doctored nag, or the dark-eyed chis so easily cozen credulous villagers and simple servant-girls by the mysteries of dukkeripen.
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