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Updated: June 20, 2025
"No," I said, "only in dreams," which evidently meant nothing to him. "Well now," I said, "do you tell me that if I went to Wag's house now, I could get inside it? Look at the size I am!" "It doesn't look as if you could," he agreed, "but my father said just the same as Wag's father about it." Here Wag shot on to my shoulder. "Are you coming?" "Yes, if I knew how." "Well, come and try, anyhow."
I followed them to the window and saw the inhabitants of the house separating and going to their homes with the young ones capering round them. One or two of the elders Wag's father in particular looked up at me, paused in their walk, and bowed gravely, which courtesy I returned.
I heard whispers from corners of the room, and appeals to Wag to explain what this and that unfamiliar object was, and noticed that he was never at a loss for an answer of some kind, correct or not. Soon a voice Wag's voice came from somewhere near my foot. "I say, could I get up on the top?"
However, there was loud laughter as they strolled, and it was noticed; and Fleetwood crying out, 'Mackrell! Mackrell! in delighted repudiation of the wag's last sally, the cry of 'Hooray, Mackrell! was caught up by the crowd. They were not the primary offenders, for loud laughter in an isolated party is bad breeding; but they had not the plea of a copious dinner.
Gipsies do not, however, seem to regard it themselves, as tacho or true Rommanis, despite this testimony, and I am inclined to think that it partly originated in some wag's perversion of the French word chose. In London, a man who sells cutlery in the streets is called a CHIVE FENCER, a term evidently derived from the Gipsy chiv, a sharp-pointed instrument or knife.
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