saggarting

Updated: May 23, 2025

And now the Christmas holidays is coming, when I shall be at home by day as well as night, and then what am I to do? Since I have been a saggarting, I have been good for nothing at all neither for work nor Greek only to play cards! Faith, it's going mad I will be!" "I say, Murtagh!" "Yes, Shorsha dear!" "I have a pack of cards."

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

‘Faith it is, honey!—And now the Christmas holidays is coming, when I shall be at home by day as well as night, and then what am I to do? Since I have been a saggarting, I have been good for nothing at all—neither for work nor Greek—only to play cards! Faith, it’s going mad I will be!’ ‘I say, Murtagh!’ ‘Yes, Shorsha dear!’ ‘I have a pack of cards.’

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

And now the Christmas holidays is coming, when I shall be at home by day as well as night, and then what am I to do? Since I have been a saggarting, I have been good for nothing at all neither for work nor Greek only to play cards! Faith, it's going mad I will be! 'I say, Murtagh! 'Yes, Shorsha dear! 'I have a pack of cards.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

No, I never saw either bad luck to them I was shipped away from Cork up the straits to a place called Leghorn, from which I was sent to to a religious house, where I was to be instructed in saggarting till they had made me fit to cut a dacent figure in Ireland.

George Henry Borrow - The Romany Rye