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"And if you throw red pepper where dogs make water, they will not go there any more after they smell it, and you can keep it clean." "Well," I replied, "I see that a great many things can be learned from the Gipsies. Tell me, now, when you wanted a night's lodging did you ever go to a union?" "Kek, rya; the tramps that jal langs the drum an' mang at the unions are kek Rommany chals.
"You can hear that at the fairs when one says to the other, You go and nobbet," meaning, "It is your turn to play now." Nobbeting, I was told, "is nauterin' it's all one, rya!" Paejama in India means very loose trousers; and it is worth noting that Gipsies call loose leggings, trousers, or "overalls," peajamangris. This may be Anglo-Indian derived from the Gorgios.
But you must have some tea now, my son good tea." It's muttermengri with you and with us of the German jib." "Ha! ha! but you must have food. You won't go away like a Gorgio without tasting anything?" "I'll eat bread with you, but tea I haven't tasted this five-and-twenty years." "Bread you shall have, rya."
"Yes; I think I can see you, Puro, walking down between two lines of hundreds of policemen every one pointing after you and saying, 'There goes that good honest the honestest man in England!" "Avo, rya," he cried, eagerly turning to me, as if delighted and astonished that I had found out the truth. "That's just what they all pens of me, an' just what I seen 'em a-doin' every time."
And as they were making fun of him and teasing him, Samson threw his hands around the great pillars of the prison, and bowed himself in, and all the house fell down with a great noise, and all the poor men were killed and the house broken to small pieces. "And so he died." "Do you know what the judgment day is, Puro?" "Avo, rya. I reflected long on this reply of the untutored Rommany.
To impress me with a due sense of his honesty and high character, the professor informed me one day that he was personally acquainted, as he verily believed, with every policeman in England. "You see, rya," he remarked, "any man as is so well known couldn't never do nothing wrong now, could he?" Innocent, unconscious, guileless air and smile! I shall never see its equal. I replied
"Did she indeed, rya?" replied my good old friend, with a smile of joy flashing from his eyes, the unearthly Rommany light just glinting from their gloom. "Yes," I said impressively, as a mother might tell an affecting story to a child. "All the money that that poor woman had, that wicked Gipsy woman took away, and utterly ruined her."
An' my pal was bengis hunnalo, an' sovahalled pal' lengis, "If I lelled you acai, you ratfolly juckos! if I nashered you, I'd chin tutes curros!" An' he jalled to tan ajaw an' pookered mandy saw dovo 'pre dovo rat. "Kun sus adovo?" Avali, rya; dovo was pash Kaulo Panni near Blackwater.
"I mang tute's shunaben, rya," pens Locke pauli; "I didn't jin tute sus wellin'!" So puro Locke hatched odoi 'pre dovo tem sar his miraben, an' that was a kushti covva for the puro Locke. That is like what is told of Mr Bartlett in Gloucestershire, who had a fine place near Gloucester and Bristol, where he lived in a great house. No man ever saw so many foxes or pheasants as he kept there.
And the same might have been said of Carolan, the Irish bard, who lived in poetry and died in whisky. The soul sleeping or dreaming away to God suggested an inquiry into the Gipsy idea of the nature of spirits. Can everybody see them, I wonder?" "Avo, rya, avo. Every mush can dick mullos if it's their cammoben to be dickdus. But 'dusta critters can dick mullos whether the mullos kaum it or kek.
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