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But he did better when I was puzzling my brain, as the learned Pott and Zippel had done before me, over the possible origin of churro or tchurro, "a ball, or anything round," when he suggested "Rya I should say that as a churro is round, and a curro or cup is round, and they both sound alike and look alike, it must be all werry much the same thing." "Can you tell me anything more about snails?"
"Kushto," penned the Rommany chal, "for cammoben to tute, rya, I'll jal avree!" Once a policeman chased a Gipsy, and the Gipsy ran into the river, that was full of great pieces of floating ice, and there he stood up to his neck with only his head out. "Come out," cried a gentleman that pitied the poor man, "and we'll let you go!" "No," said the Gipsy; "I won't move."
Rya," he exclaimed, with an air of placid triumph, "do you think the head-police his selfus would a spoke in them wery words to me if he hadn't a thought I was a good man?" "Well, let's get to work, old Honesty. What is the Rommanis for to hide?" "To gaverit is to hide anything, rya. Gaverit." And to illustrate its application he continued
I thought that this was a singular message to come from a tent at Battersea, and asked my special Gipsy factotum, why God should be called water, or water, God? And he replied in the following words: "Panni is the Boro Duvel, and it is Bishnoo or Vishnoo, because it pells alay from the Boro Duvel. 'Vishnu is the Boro Duvel then? Avali. There can't be no stretch adoi can there, rya?
"Do snails live as long as lizards?" "Not when I find 'em rya if I am hungry. Snails are good eating. You can find plenty on the hedges. Take 'em and wash 'em and throw 'em into the kettle, with water and a little salt. The broth's good for the yellow jaundice." "So you call a snail" "A bawris," said the old fortune-teller. "Bawris! The Hungarian Gipsies call it a bouro.
He admitted that it was true; but after considering the subject deeply, and dividing the deliberations between his pipe and a little wooden bear on the table his regular oracle and friend he suddenly burst forth in the following beautiful illustration of philology by theology: "Rya, I pens you the purodirus lav for a leaf an' that's a holluf.
'How much do you get for carryin' that there bundle? 'A sixpence, rya! says I. 'It's twice as much as you ought to have, says he; 'an' I'd be glad to carry it myself for the money. 'All right, sir, says I, touchin' my hat and goin' off, for he was a wery nice gentleman.
These specimens of [=A]rya exposition of the Vedas I have given with no intention of scoffing, although we may be permitted a laugh. I desire to show the conflict of modern ideas and the new patriotic feeling, and how the latter has affected the religious and theological position of the [=A]ryas. It is the prominence of the patriotic feeling in many branches of the Sam[=a]j that has led some observers to describe it as less of a religious than a political organisation, anti-British and anti-Mahomedan and anti-Christian. But the opponents of the Sam[=a]j are always associated by [=A]ryas with rival religions; keranis, kuranis, and puranis is their echoing list of their opponents, namely, Christians (kerani being a corruption of Christiani), and believers in the Koran, and believers in the Purans, i.e. the later Hindu books. And that there is much more than political feeling is apparent in their latest developments. The leaven of modern ideas has now led to the rise of a party among the [=A]ryas which is prepared to stand by reason out and out, and repudiate the founder's bondage to the Vedas and his
By the latter "aid" I risked the loss of Rommany words altogether, and undoubtedly did lose a great many. "Yes, rya; that must be happer, habber, or huvver. And here in bounding triumph he gave the little wooden bear a drink of ale, as if it had uttered this chunk of solid wisdom, and then treated himself to a good long pull.
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