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Updated: June 12, 2025
'Don't say so, child; he's sick, 'tis true, but don't laugh at dukkerin, only folks do that that know no better. I, for one, will never laugh at the dukkerin dook. Sick again; I wish he was gone. 'He'll soon be gone, bebee; let's leave him. He's as good as gone; look there, he's dead. 'No, he's not, he'll get up I feel it; can't we hasten him?
Well, brother, the Scotchman, I suppose, thinking I was speaking ill of him, fell into a greater passion than before, and catching hold of the word dukkerin 'Dukkerin, said he, 'what's dukkerin? 'Dukkerin, said I, 'is fortune, a man or woman's destiny; don't you like the word? 'Word! d'ye ca' that a word? a bonnie word, said he.
"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.
'And he says that Fenella Stanley know'd more about the true dukkerin, the dukkerin of the Romanies, than anybody as were ever heerd on. 'She seems to have been pretty superstitious, I said, 'by all accounts. But what has that to do with the cross? 'You'll put it in the tomb again. 'Never! 'Fenella Stanley will see arter that. 'Fenella Stanley! Why, she's dead and dust.
I don't mean dukkerin, dancing, and the like; but such a moderate and innocent thing as a choomer, Ursula?" "Innocent thing, do you call it, brother?" "The world calls it so, Ursula. Well, do the people who give you the fine things never expect a choomer in return?" "Very frequently, brother." "And do you ever grant it?" "Never, brother." "How do you avoid it?"
Don't you mind when we was a-goin' up Snowdon arter Winifred that mornin'? I told you as the rocks, an' the trees, an' the winds, an' the waters cuss us when we goes ag'in the Romany blood an' ag'in the dukkerin' dook. 'You mean conscience, Sinfi.
"His death was certainly a very shocking one, Ursula; but, really, if he had died a natural one, you could scarcely have regretted it, for he appears to have treated you barbarously." "Women must bear, brother; and, barring that he kicked and beat me, and drove me out to tell dukkerin when I could scarcely stand, he was not a bad husband.
"Then money and fine clothes would induce you to do anything, Ursula?" "Ay, ay, brother, anything." "To chore, Ursula?" "Like enough, brother; gypsies have been transported before now for choring." "To hokkawar?" "Ay, ay; I was telling dukkerin only yesterday, brother." "In fact, to break the law in everything?"
She'll get them into choky and trouble, for sure. And that's a true dukkerin." "Have you the money to go to America?" "Money?" The old woman chuckled and hugged herself. "And why not, sir, when Ishmael Hearne was my child. Aye, the child of my child, for I am the bebee of Hearne, bebee being grandmother in our Romany tongue, sir." Lambert started from his seat, almost too astonished to speak.
Well, brother, out of consideration for the civil gentry with whom the fellow had come, I held my peace for a long time, and in order to get the subject changed, I said to Mikailia in Romany, You have told the ladies their fortunes, now tell the gentlemen theirs, quick, quick, pen lende dukkerin.
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