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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Kushto," penned the Rommany chal, "for cammoben to tute, rya, I'll jal avree!" Once a policeman chased a Gipsy, and the Gipsy ran into the river, that was full of great pieces of floating ice, and there he stood up to his neck with only his head out. "Come out," cried a gentleman that pitied the poor man, "and we'll let you go!" "No," said the Gipsy; "I won't move."
"People of the Mist," he said, "the gods have given us a new law, a law of the sacrifice of oxen and goats in the place of men and maids, and ye yourselves have welcomed that law. No longer shall the blood of victims flow to Jal beneath the white rays of the moon while the chant of his servants goes up to heaven. Nay, henceforth this holy place must be a shambles for the kine.
If you are not Jal, then I am safe from your vengeance, and if you are Jal I pray you forget the sins of my youth and spare me." "Who is Jal?" asked Leonard curiously. "Nay, I know not," answered the woman, with a sudden change of manner. "Hunger and weariness have turned my brain, and I spoke wandering words.
A Roman audience gathered to witness a gladiatorial show, to find themselves treated instead to a donkey-race and a cock-fight, could scarcely have shown more fury. "Bring out the women! Let the victims be offered up to Jal as of old," the multitude yelled in their rage, and ten minutes or more elapsed before they could be quieted. Then Nam addressed them cunningly.
Do I see thee in the flesh, Lord of the night, King of blood and terror, and is this thy priest? Or do I but dream? Nay, I dream not; slay on, thou priest, and let my sin be purged." "Here it seems," said Otter, "that we have to do with one who is mad." "Nay, Jal," the woman answered, "I am not mad, though madness has been nigh to me of late."
So the master went far about the country, and found the Gipsies, and sent them to prison. Now this was in the old time when they used to hang people for any little thing. And all the bags, and kettles, and things of the Gipsies were thrown and piled together behind the hedge in the churchyard, and no man touched them. Did mandy ever jal to kangry? Avali, dui koppas, and beshed a lay odoi.
They dig them out of a dry river-bed in some spot that is known to the priests only, and with them other beautiful stones of a blue colour." "Sapphires probably," said Leonard to himself: "they generally go together." "Every year they dig them," she went on, "and the biggest of those that are found in their digging they bind upon the brow of her who is to be offered as a wife to the god Jal.
"I am quite sure that you never had a drop of blood in common with them. Tell me, do you know any Gipsy gilis any songs?" "Only a bit of a one, sir; most of it isn't fit to sing, but it begins " And here he sang: "Jal 'dree the ker my honey, And you shall be my rom."
Gentlemen must be careful not to make sport of and play tricks on poor men. Trin or shtor beshes pauli kenna yeck o' the Petulengros dicked a boro mullo baulor adree a bitti drum. An' sig as he latched it, some Rommany chals welled alay an' dicked this here Rommany chal. So Petulengro he shelled avree, "A fino baulor! saw tulloben! jal an the sala an' you shall have pash."
"Nobbet," which is a Gipsy word well known to all itinerant negro minstrels, means to go about with music to get money. "To nobbet round the tem, bosherin'." It also implies time or turn, as I inferred from what I was told on inquiry. "You can shoon dovo at the wellgooras when yeck rakkers the waver, You jal and nobbet."
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