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Updated: May 17, 2025
'Ha, ha, brother, said she, 'well, I like you all the better for talking Rommany; it is a sweet language, isn't it? especially as you sing it. How did you pick it up? But you picked it up upon the roads, no doubt?
'Ay, truly; I am husband and father. You will see wife and chabo anon. 'Where are they now? 'In the gav, penning dukkerin. 'We were talking of language, Jasper? 'True, brother. 'Yours must be a rum one? ''Tis called Rommany. 'I would gladly know it. 'You need it sorely. 'Would you teach it me? 'None sooner. 'Suppose we begin now? 'Suppose we do, brother.
I was, en voyage, at a little cathedral town, when learning that some Gipsies lived in a village eight miles distant, I hired a carriage and rode over to see them. I found my way to a neat cottage, and on entering it discovered that I was truly enough among the Rommany.
I have found, on questioning a Persian gentleman, that he knew the meaning of many Rommany words from their resemblance to vulgar Persian, though they were not in the Persian dictionary which I used.
Perhaps we may put it down to his wife, who cannot move about, being a cripple, as you saw.’ ‘And you are what is called a Gypsy King?’ ‘Ay, ay; a Rommany Kral.’ ‘Are there other kings?’ ‘Those who call themselves so; but the true Pharaoh is Petulengro.’ ‘Did Pharaoh make horse-shoes?’ ‘The first who ever did, brother.’ ‘Pharaoh lived in Egypt.’ ‘So did we once, brother.’ ‘And you left it?’
"What is Rommany? our language, to be sure; tell me, brother, only one thing, you don't speak Rommany?" "You say it." "I don't say it, I wish to know. Do you speak Rommany?" "Do you mean thieves' slang cant? no, I don't speak cant, I don't like it, I only know a few words; they call a sixpence a tanner, don't they?"
'Why, brother, the Rommany chal, after he had somewhat recovered from his surprise, for it is rather uncomfortable to be laid hold of at night-time, and told you are a prisoner; more especially when you happen to have two or three things on your mind which, if proved against you, would carry you to the nashky, the Rommany chal, I say, clubbed his whip, and aimed a blow at the plastramengro, which, if it had hit him on the skull, as was intended, would very likely have cracked it.
To return to cats: it is remarkable that the colour which makes a cat desirable should render a bowl or cup objectionable to a true Gipsy, as I have elsewhere observed in commenting on the fact that no old-fashioned Rommany will drink, if possible, from white crockery. But they have peculiar fancies as to other colours.
"None of your Rommany chies, young fellow," said the tall girl, looking more menacingly than before and clenching her fist, "you had better be civil, I am none of your chies; and though I keep company with gypsies, or, to speak more proper, half and halfs, I would have you to know that I come of Christian blood and parents, and was born in the great house of Long Melford."
One nursed his infant with tender embraces, another began to examine green sticks with a view to converting them into clothes-pegs in fact I was in a model community of wandering Shakers. I regret to say that the instant I uttered a Rommany word, and was recognised, this discipline of decorum was immediately relaxed.
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