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"I saw in some Athenaeum a somewhat contemptuous notice of G. B.'s 'Rommany Lil' or whatever the name is. Borrow sent a message to FitzGerald through Edmund Kerrich of Geldeston, asking him to visit Oulton Cottage. The reply shows all the sweetness of the writer's nature: LITTLE GRANGE, WOODBRIDGE, Jan. 10/75.
"Hey, brother, you don't speak as you did you don't speak like a gorgio, you speak like one of us, you call me sister." "As you call me brother; I am not an uncivil person after all, sister." "I say, brother, tell me one thing, and look me in the face there do you speak Rommany?" "Rommany! Rommany! what is Rommany?"
But where did this speech come from, and who were they who spoke it? These were questions which I could not solve, and which Jasper himself, when pressed, confessed his inability to answer. 'But, whoever we be, brother, said he, 'we are an old people, and not what folks in general imagine, broken gorgios; and, if we are not Egyptians, we are at any rate Rommany Chals! 'Rommany Chals!
‘The horse-shoe master and the snake-fellow, I am the first.’ ‘Who gave you that name?’ ‘Ask Pharaoh.’ ‘I would, if he were here, but I do not see him.’ ‘I am Pharaoh.’ ‘Then you are a king.’ ‘Chachipen Pal.’ ‘I do not understand you.’ ‘Where are your languages? You want two things, brother: mother sense, and gentle Rommany.’ ‘What makes you think that I want sense?’
'Your health, gentlemen, said I, as I took the cup which Mr. Petulengro handed to me. 'Aukko tu pios adrey Rommanis. Here is your health in Rommany, brother, said Mr. Petulengro; who, having refilled the cup, now emptied it at a draught. 'Your health in Rommany, brother, said Tawno Chikno, to whom the cup came next. 'The Rommany Rye, said a third.
"Grey, tall, and talks Rommany," said she to herself. In her countenance there was an expression which I had not seen before an expression which struck me as being composed of fear, curiosity and the deepest hate. It was momentary, however, and was succeeded by one smiling, frank, and open.
Take my blessing with ye, and a little bit of a gillie to cheer your hearts with when ye are weary. In all kinds of weather have we lived together; but now we are parted. I goes broken-hearted—I can’t keep you company; ye are no longer Rommany. To gain a bad brother, ye have lost a good mother.’ So the gypsies departed; Mrs.
‘I don’t dislike you—I dislike no one; there’s only one, and him I don’t dislike, him I hate.’ ‘Who is he?’ ‘I scarcely know, I never saw him, but ’tis no affair of yours, you don’t speak Rommany; you will let me have the kekaubi, pretty brother?’ ‘You may have it, but not for sixpence; I’ll give it to you.’ ‘Parraco tute, that is, I thank you, brother; the rikkeni kekaubi is now mine. O, rare!
With more education, he would have become a Rommany Bid- pai; and since India is the fatherland of the fable, he may have derived his peculiar faculty for turning morals and adorning tales legitimately from that source.
I sees a jolly pig in the yard, and I says to my sister, speaking Rommany, “Do so and so,” says I; which the farming man hearing, asks what we are talking about. “Nothing at all, master,” says I; “something about the weather”; when who should start up from behind a pale, where he has been listening, but this ugly gorgio, crying out, “They are after poisoning your pigs, neighbour!” so that we are glad to run, I and my sister, with perhaps the farm-engro shouting after us.
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