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Updated: June 12, 2025


DOOK, to tell fortunes, and DOOKING, fortune-telling, are derived by the writer last cited, correctly enough, from the Gipsy dukkerin, a fact which I specify, since it is one of the very rare instances in which he has not blundered when commenting on Rommany words, or other persons' works.

We lived together two years, travelling sometimes by ourselves, sometimes with our relations; I bore him two children, both of which were still-born, partly, I believe, from the fatigue I underwent in running about the country telling dukkerin when I was not exactly in a state to do so, and partly from the kicks and blows which my husband Launcelot was in the habit of giving me every night, provided I came home with less than five shillings, which it is sometimes impossible to make in the country, provided no fair or merry-making is going on.

God bless you for a sick one, say I, and that's a bad dukkerin, the which in gentle Romany means fortune, my Gentile swell." "Drop talking such nonsense," said Lambert sharply, and annoyed to see how the girl ignored the presence of Lady Agnes. "I have a few questions to ask you about a certain letter."

Brother, I am fond of solitude myself, but not that kind of solitude; I like a quiet heath, where I can pitch my house, but I always like to have a gay stirring place not far off, where the women can pen dukkerin, and I myself can sell or buy a horse, if needful such a place as the Chong Gav. I never feel so merry as when there, brother, or on the heath above it, where I taught you Rommany.

There is no hope, sir, no help, you have taken drow; shall I tell you your fortune, sir, your dukkerin? God bless you, pretty gentleman, much trouble will you have to suffer, and much water to cross; but never mind, pretty gentleman, you shall be fortunate at the end, and those who hate shall take off their hats to you.’

Brother, I am fond of solitude myself, but not that kind of solitude; I like a quiet heath, where I can pitch my house, but I always like to have a gay, stirring place not far off, where the women can pen dukkerin, and I myself can sell or buy a horse, if needful such a place as the Chong Gav. I never feel so merry as when there, brother, or on the heath above it, where I taught you Rommany."

'Well, you know, said Sinfi, 'anybody as is under the cuss is half with the sperrits and half with us, and so can tell the real "dukkerin'." Only it's bad for a Romany to have another Romany in the "place" as is under the cuss; but it don't matter a bit about having a Gorgio among your breed as is under a cuss; for Gorgio cuss can't never touch Romany.

I was determined to make a horse-shoe, and a good one, in spite of every obstacle ay, in spite of dukkerin.

'Can you reckon him up, brother? said Sinfi, taking my meerschaum from my lips to refill it for me, as she was fond of doing. 'No. 'Nor I nuther, said Sinfi. 'Nor I can't pen his dukkerin' nuther, though often's the time I've tried it. During this time the two friends seemed to have finished their colloquy upon 'composition'; for they both came up to us.

Anon, I found myself at York again, just as the drop fell, and I looked up, and I saw not the tinker, but my own self hanging in the air. 'You are going mad, bebee; if you want to hasten him, take your stick and poke him in the eye. 'That will be of no use, child, the dukkerin tells me so; but I will try what I can do.

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