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It is supposed to have the power of drawing the spirits when a maiden sings to its accompaniment a mysterious old Cymric song or incantation. Among her own people it was as a seeress, as an adept in the real dukkering the dukkering for the Romanies, as distinguished from the false dukkering, the dukkering for the Gorgios that Sinfi's fame was great.
The instrument at first seemed to chatter with her agitation. I waited in breathless suspense. At last there came clearly from her crwth the wild air I had already heard on Snowdon. Then the sound of the instrument ceased save for the drone of the two bottom strings, and Sinfi's voice leapt out and I heard the words of what she called the Welsh dukkering gillie.
It appeared to me from her appearance that she might be one of those who make a living at telling fortunes or "dukkering," as the master calls it, at racecourses and other gatherings of the sort. "Do you dukker?" I asked. She slapped me on the arm. "Well, you are a pot of ginger!" said she. I was pleased at the slap, for it put me in mind of the peerless Belle.
To her there evidently seemed something mysterious and uncanny in writing, something like 'penning dukkering. It seemed to her, I think, a much more remarkable accomplishment than that of painting.
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