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All Gipsies are quite aware that their language is very old and curious, but they very seldom meet with Gorgios who are familiar with the fact, and manifest an interest in it. While engaged in conversation with this family, Petulamengro asked me if I had ever met in America with Mr , adding, "He is a brother-in-law of mine."
A petulamengro hatched yeck divvus at a givescro ker, where the rani del him mass an' tood. While he was hawin' he dicked a kekavi sar chicklo an' bongo, pashall a boro hev adree, an' he putchered, "Del it a mandy an' I'll lel it avree for chichi, 'cause you've been so kushto an' kammoben to mandy."
Petulamengro, as the name is commonly given at the present day, was evidently very proud of his Rommany, and talked little else: but he could not speak it nearly so well nor so fluently as his mother, who was of "the old sort," and who was, I believe, sincerely delighted that her skill was appreciated by me.
No such Language as Rommany. Hedgehogs. The Witch Element in Gipsy Life. Jackdaws and Dogs. Their Uses. Lurchers and Poachers. A Gipsy Camp. The Ancient Henry. I am mistaken for a Magistrate or Policeman. Gipsies of Three Grades. The Slangs. Jim and the Twigs. Beer rained from Heaven. Fortune-telling. A golden Opportunity to live at my Ease. Petulamengro. I hear of a New York Friend.
"Avo, my rye; I can understand you well enough, but I never saw a Gipsy gentleman before." So I went over the bridge, and sure enough there on the ground lay a full-grown Petulamengro, while his brown juva tended the pot.
He was one of the smiths a Petulengro or Petulamengro, or master of the horse- shoe, a name familiar to all readers of Lavengro. This man was a full Gipsy, but he spoke better English, as well as better Rommany, than his neighbours, and had far more refinement of manner.
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