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"Ay, ay, brother, our fathers, brothers, and cokos gives us all manner of credit; for example, I am telling lies and dukkerin in a public-house where my batu or coko perhaps both are playing on the fiddle; well, my batu and my coko beholds me amongst the public-house crew, talking nonsense and hearing nonsense; but they are under no apprehension; and presently they sees the good-looking officer of militia, in his greens and Lincolns, get up and give me a wink, and I go out with him abroad, into the dark night perhaps; well, my batu and my coko goes on fiddling just as if I were six miles off asleep in the tent, and not out in the dark street with the local officer, with his Lincolns and his greens."
"By no means, brother; I should bring my action of law against him." "Your action at law, Ursula?" "Yes, brother, I should give a whistle, whereupon all one's cokos and batus, and all my near and distant relations, would leave their fiddling, dukkerin, and horse-dealing, and come flocking about me. 'What's the matter, Ursula? says my coko.
'You are a liar, says I, and forthwith I breaks his head with the stick which I holds behind me, and which my coko has conveyed privily into my hand." "And this is your action at law, Ursula?" "Yes, brother, this is my action at club-law." "And would your breaking the fellow's head quite clear you of all suspicion in the eyes of your batus, cokos, and what not?"
'Nothing at all, I replies, 'save and except that gorgio, in his greens and his Lincolns, says that I have played the with him. 'Oho, he does, Ursula, says my coko, 'try your action of law against him, my lamb, and he puts something privily into my hands; whereupon I goes close up to the grinning gorgio, and staring him in the face, with my head pushed forward, I cries out: 'You say I did what was wrong with you last night when I was out with you abroad? 'Yes, says the local officer, 'I says you did, looking down all the time.
"Why, 't is advised by gypsy liri, brother. It's part of our way of settling difficulties amongst ourselves; for example, if a young Roman were to say the thing which is not respecting Ursula and himself, Ursula would call a great meeting of the people, who would all sit down in a ring, the young fellow amongst them; a coko would then put a stick in Ursula's hand, who would then get up and go to the young fellow, and say, 'Did I play the with you? and were he to say 'Yes, she would crack his head before the eyes of all."
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