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ENGLISH-GIPSY SONGS,
In
Eommanp
WITH METRICAL. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.
CHARLES
G.
E.
AND
LELAND,
H.
PROFESSOR
PALMER,
JANET TUCKEY.
|3fjilnticlpl)ia
J.
B.
I. I
PPIN C OTT
1875.
ik
O.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year ISVO,

J. B.
by
LIPPINCOTT(fcCO.
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Scliiratrt)
(BY PERMISSION)
TO
ALFRED TENNYSON.
PREFACE,
When
guage," writing "Tiie English Gipsies and their LanI
was desirous of adding specimens of Rom-
many
songs to the collection of proverbs and tales con-
tained in the Avork, but could obtain none possessed of

interest except as indifferent illustrations of the tongue.
There
is
beyond doubt a great deal of singing in Romit is
many, but
like tliat of
in
American Indians, without
form and void, wanting
metre and rhyme, and chanted
to wliat only a very impressible disciple of Sugg(stiv(*
Art could recognise as a tune.

kind of
Grip.sy
have often heard

not
this
ballad
full
indeed,
it is
many days
since
I
an old danic,
of gratitude for a shilling which
had
licr-
bestowed on
s(!lf
her,
having converted
it
into gin,
and
into its recci)tacle, followed
mc
through the streets
of
Happy Hampton,
singing
ohl
my
praises in
Kommany.
that his
On
.inother occasion, an
Oijisy
toM me
it
sister,
who
hail for
some time announccMl
as her firm
VI
PREFACE.
intention to die on the fifteenth day of the following
month, had passed the previous evening

she called her Death Song.
learn respecting song,
it
in singing
what
"
All,
it
however, that
I could
was, that
was a " werry lonesome
and " about a yard and a half long," as

his arms.
my
infor-
mant indicated by extending

in pertick'ler "
It had " no tune
and, her
brother seemed to think, no

I
meaning
in particular either.
am happy
to say,
by
the way, that the prediction was not
fulfilled,
though
it
the old woman's relations were quite persuaded that
would be so on the day appointed.
Not
finding
what
wanted,
had given up the inten-
tion of forming such a collection,
when
the perusal of a
few excellent
fairly claim to
Rommany
ballads
by a friend who may
be among the " deepest " of the deep in
the langiiage, as well as others by Professor Palmer and
Miss Janet Tuckey, suggested to

impressed with true Gipsy
spirit,
me the idea that

and
poetry,
perfectly idiomatic,
might be written and
lionestly classed as
Rommany,
even though not composed by dwellers in tents or caravans.
The experiment was made,
great
care
being
taken to avoid anything like theatrical Gipsyism, or

fanciful
idealisation.
With
this
constantly kept in
mind, the writers have done their best to use simple

language and to keep strictly to real English
Rommany,
PREFACE.
both as regards words aud exi^ressiou.
of doing so was very great,
set forth
it
Vll
The
difficulty
being often impossible to
new ideas correctly without exposing ourselves

making a new language, or
an affected
style.
to the charge of
ci'eating, in
the
dilettanti
spirit,
We
have, I
trust,
done nothing towards forming a lengua

as exists in Spain
del Ajicion,
or
sham Gipsy, such

is
among
Not that
I
sporting
I
men, and
unintelligible to Gipsies.
test,
would
regard this as an infallible

Gipsies so ignorant that
it
for
have known
was impossible without much
explanation and
many
repetitions to
make them
I
under-
stand the simplest English verse.

that in
if
tliis
But
venture to say
collection there
is
hardly one
poem
M'hich,
read in a natural and prosaic manner, M'ithout dwell})lain
ing on the-rhymes or metre, will not be perfectly

to
any
intelligent
Vjy
Gipsy
indeed, I have amply satislied
myself of this
experiment.
in a
There are many to wliom writing ballads

l)Osses.sing
language
no
literature,
will
and almost unknown, save to a

lik(^
few vagabonds,
I
seem
a mere eccentric fancy.

that of late years
would say
in
answer to
this,
Komiirst
maiiy has Ixton a subjijct of great interest to the

philologists of
Europe
that in
Kiighind
;
it
has
\'ur
several
is
centuries been
a distinct dialect
acquire.
and
tliat
it
soft,
musical,
and easy to
As
it
contains an extra-
Vlll
PREFACE.
number
it
ordinary
of Hindi-Hindustani,
Sanskrit, and'
Persian Avords,
can be of some assistance to persons

those languages.
who would study

ferred
This
may
be
in-
from the
ftict
that an Indian military friend of
mine once
with
its
visited a
Gipsy camp, and did his best to talk
occupants through the
medium
of Hindustani.
Afterwards one of the Gipsies informed

that
me
privately
it
my
friend talked "
werry bad Rommanis, but

it
was Rommanis
such
rye."
as
was
and
Mr
;
the
gentleman
was a
Rommany
The reader
will find in this work, in addition to the
poems, a Glossary, suggested by
Tennyson, and
also a
prepared by Professor E. H. Palmer
Rhyming
Vocabulary by Miss Janet Tuckey.
The Introduction
by
myself.
and Notes appended
to the
poems
are
Charles G. Leland.
CONTENTS.
Iktrodcction
....
Gdv
.
Charles G. Leland.
E.
Kdrri mullo y61 a lulled
H. Palmer.
Home
I'ush
i
they brought her warrior dead

Krdllisas
A. Tennyson.
Told near Windsor
Janet Tuckey. Janet Tuckey.
Jaldn! Move on
I
Kdrdngri
.....
Po.s.serben adro o
in the
Charles G. Leland. Charles G. Leland.

E. H. Pal.mer. E. H.
The House-Dweller
Palmer.
Rommani
Puro Ch
A
<)
Gipsy Burial
Old Time
Janet Tuckey. Janet Tuckev.
Tdcho Horn
.
The Real Gipsy

<)

E. H. Palmer.
K. H.
Tover
The Hatchet
Moriben for Kaminoheu
Gipsy Death for Love
.
Palmer.
Janet Tuckey. Janet Tuckev.
F<5tograf(5ngro
The Photograiihcr
Ri'tmmani Gilli
Charles 0. Leland. Charles O. Leland.

i;.
II.
Palmer.
J'almkk.
A
()
Gip.ty
Song
!;.
11.
Livincjngri
Tom
Kent, or the Hopping-time
CONTENTS.
I
Shunali Rakli
Girl
The Wilful

E.
Rdmandsto K^lloben The Gipsy Ball

.
H. Palmer.
E. H. Palmer.
A Tacho
A
Cdwaben
.
Keal Incident
Koramani Chlriclo
The Gipsy Bird

Bacon and Eggs
Charles G. Leland. Janet Tuckey. Charles G. Leland. Charles G. Leland.

Bdllovas an Y<5ras
.
Minsha tu Cheer up
!
Bdckelo
Gilli
The Song
Tdchopen
of Starvation te

E. H. Palmer.
Wafodipen
Gipsy Morals
Kairin Kamraoben
E, H. Palmer.
Gipsy Love-making
Jukalo R6mmanis
Dog-Gipsy

E. H. Palmer. E. H. Palmer.
Sa o Rdmmani chal mukked piin L^vi Why the Gipsy left off drinking Beer
Kushto Dukkerin The Pleasant Fortune
The H6nnalo o' the Panni The Roar of the Water
Matthew Cooper.
Charles G. Leland.
M. Cooper. Charles G. Leland.
E. H. Palmer.
MuUo
Balor
.
Dead Pig
Petuldngro te o Pure Beng Smith and the Devil

.
E. H. Pal.mer.
Sa
lis
jinsa tu
How
do you know
it
CONTENTS.
I
XI
Tsni Mullos
Little
....
.
The
I
Bubbles
ChlrikI
.....
.
!
The Stars
I
Charles G, Leland. Charles G. Leland.

E. H. Paljier.
Puri Etjmmani Dye's Dui Chdvior The Old Gipsy Woman's Two Daughters
Lei Rilk
!
E. H. Palmer.
j.vnkt tccket.
Jjook Sharp
Janet Tucket.
Miri Kameli Pirryni
The
Girl
who Loves me Well

E. H.
Rommani Jinabcn
Gipsy Philosophy
Palmer.
E. H. Palmer.
Frank Cooper Frank Cooper

Dukkerin
.
Charles G. Leland. Janet Tdckey.

E. H. Palmer.
.
Fortune-telling
E. H. Palmer.
The The
Oilvdngroes
Police
.
R6mrnani8
All
is
lei Siir
Fish to the Gipsy Net
Janet Tucket. Janet Tuckey.

E. H.
Charlie o Rdahimdngro
Palmer.
Preaching Charlie
I Rilni te o Rye The Lady and the Lord
.
E. H. Palmer.
Frovi MiKLosicH.
CiiAiiLKS G.
Leland.
PiGro DivA'Cisko
Dlvvus
Matthew
Cooi'kk.
The Judgment- Day

Roman(^8Cro Kriininobc
Charles G. Lkland.
Jankt Tuckky. Janet Tuckby.
(JiiAiiLK.s
Gipsy Wooing
1
CliGviliani
.
G. Leland.
The Witcii
(lUAiiLES G.
Leland.
Tu
Shiln
Choue
Jani:t Tuckky.
The Moon, Soft-moving
Jankt Tuckky.
xu
Kiimmoben, Tilttopen
Love-time
is
CONTENTS.
Janet Tuckev. Janet Tdckey.
Summer-time
Shah The Shah

GiUi
.
Song
Piitteran
The Gipsy Sign
Charles G. Leland. Janet Tuckey.

.
1 Ratteskri Pireugvi
The Seven Night-walkers

Lei tiro
Charles Charles
G. Leland. G. Leland.
Kam
!
.
Help Yom-self
Ddlaben
.

E. H.
The Gift
Wafropen o' the Beshomdngroes The Injustice of Judges
Palmkh.
E. H. Palmer.
A Ndsherin C6vvaben A Hanging Matter

Trin Bitti

Lee.
Rommani
Chals
.
Three Little Gipsies
Charles
G. Leland.
Desh Taui Chavis Duriken Ten Little Gipsies' Fate
H. Smith. H. Smith.
The Rawney on the Tober The Lady on the Road

Giili of a
From a From a
Gipsy.
Gipsy.
Rommani Juva Gipsy Woman's Song

.
From, a Gipsy.
Frovi a Gipsy.
Pbonunciation Rhyming Dictionary Glossary

.
Charles G. Leland. Janet Tuckey.

E. H. Palmer.
INTRODUCTION
English-Gipsy, as now spoken, presents the appearance of a language which was perhaps never fully developed,
and
is
now
in a state of rapid deterioration.
At the end
covered that
of the last century, J. C. C. Riidiger dis-
Kommany,
all
as the
Gipsy tongue
is
pro-
perly called in
this
lie
countries,
in
was of Hindu
entitled,
origin,
and
announced
work
" Neuester
Zuwachs der Sprachkundc,"

searches,
Halle,
1782.
specify
Later
those
re-
among which
("
would
of
Pott and Miklosich

Zigeuner,"
&c.,
Ueber die Wanderungen dor

1873),
Wien,
it
have more
accurately
determined that
Indian
"
belongs
to the
so-called
its its
" recent
family, as a large proportion of
words are
to be found in Hindustani or Persian,
and
its
grammar
is
resembles that of these languages.
Yet
difference
on the whole so marked, that

as a language.
it
must be ranked
originally
l)y itscjlf
Whether
it
was
formed
in
INTRODUCTIOX.
India, previous to the
exodus of the Gipsy

centuries,
race,
between
it
the
tenth
and
fourteenth
or
whether
assumed new grammatical forms during the wanderings

of the people of the " dark blood,"
is
not as yet known.
The problem has excited great
interest,
and Miklosich,
one of the most indefatigable of German philologists,

is
busily engaged
in
its
solution.
would observe,
that
with
regard
to
the
origin
of
Rommany,
my
fellow-labourer. Professor E. H. Palmer, of Cambridge,
has decided, on examining a vocabulary of more than

four
thousand English-Gipsy words collected by me,

of
that nearly all

origin,
them, not of Greek or
European
are Hindi or Persian,

It
is
the Hindi greatly pre-
dominating.
also
to
be remarked, that
old
many
im-
Rommany words
and
that,
have
the
an
Sanskrit
diluted,
character,
despite
mutilated,
and
poverished state of this very singular language, there

are
reasons
for
believing
that
it
contains
the frag-
ments or framework of some extremely ancient Aryan

tongue, preserved from the earliest times
among
those
wandering
tribes,
which have, since
tlie
days of
the
Vedas, maintained a privileged and separate existence,
as, for instance,
the
Dom.
Dr
Miklosich has, with great ingenuity, pointed out
from the fragments of Greek, Slavonic, and other tongues

found in the different dialects of European Gipsies, the
INTRODUCTION.
course of their travels, and conjectured the time they
remained in different countries.

that
It
is
a curious fact
the
Anglo-Rommany,
to
judge
from
my own
researches, contains far
more Hindi and Persian words
than any of the Continental dialects.

Until within
fifty years,
English
Rommany was
it
spoken
with something like grammatical accuracy, and in that

condition very
in
much resembled
It
is
the tongue as
now
exists
Germany.
not long since
Dr
Zupitza, of Vienna,
discovered that the specimen of so-called Egyptian in
Andrew
Borde's
"Boke
of the Introduction of
is
Knowquite
ledge" (London, 1542)

intelligible
really
Rommany, and
is
to
most Gipsies.
It
to
be observed,
three
that
English
Rommany
contains
only two or
all
French or German words

ful
the
former being
doubtit
and
that, to
judge from Borde's fragment,

time to Anglicise.
had
still
begun even
in
in
his
There are
England a few old Gipsies who pride themselves
on preserving many grammatical forms and "deep"

words, and
use them.
changt'd,
many more who understand

But the language
is,
l)ut
do not
on the whole, greatly
and to write
it
as
it
practically exists, without

falling into
affecting archaisms
on the one hand, or

is
mere
jargon on the other,

It
a very difficult task.

for
was accordingly no easy matter
my
colleagues
and myself
to determine exactly the character of the
INTRODUCTION.
should adopt.
Kommany which we
mined to write
it,
We
finally deter-
in the tongue as
it
we
old
familiarly understood
and
;
as
we had found
i.e.,
in the current
modern
as could
form
but retaining as
much
Eommany
be done with truth and ease.

Gipsies in one part of England understand
many
old
words unknown to those
in another,
and very often an
individual will recall some obsolete and curious term,
apparently retained by him alone.

that
therefore trust
nobody
if
will set it
down
to the discredit of these
poems
first
he should find that, on reading them to the

fortune-teller,
basket-seller or
he or she should
call
declare
many words
to
be unintelligible, or
I
them
"Dictionary Eommanis."
am
not apprehensive that

fail
the more intelligent Gipsies will
to understand the
work.
The reader
desirous of further information on
the
subject of this language
may
consult the "
Eomano Lavo
Lil" of George Borrow (London, John Murray, 1874),
and the excellent book on the English-Gipsy language by Dr Bath

C.
Smart (London, Asher

is
k, Co.,
1875), in
which the tongue

archaic form.
given in the so-called deep or
C. G.
L.
KERRJ MVLLO VOL A LULLED.
Kerri mullo
Laki's
Pali
o'
yol a lulled
kuramengro rom
jelled,
ye tauya
les
Chiwed
truppo prd the dr6m.

alay,
But odoi yoi bashed
Sim a
Keker
mullo, 'pre the
puv
shelled or hatched aprd,

rtivv.
Kek'nai kairdas laki
Sar
o'
lakis juvas dick

sasti
Rakkerin yoi
Else
yoi'Il
ruvv
muller 'dr6 ye chick,

apre ye puv.
alay,
iV;c.
Muller
'doi
But odoi yoi beshed

Pukk'das
leii
inf.shto
pen
" Yiiv SOS a but kushto mush,
Kairin pAlor tdchipen,
Kairin g<jrgio geeror diish."
But odoi yoi
bcslied alay,
Ike.
ENGIJSH-GIPSY SONGS.
Sims a chor fon
lakis tdn
^
;
But shukdr a juva welled

Pirried kdti mullo An,
diklo
'vri les'
mui
lelled.
But odoi yoi beshed

Hatched apr6 a puri dye,
alay, &c.
Lak's chdvo pr6 her chong she chlvs
Sims a brishin ruvel yoi

"
Tukey kammaben, mi
jivs
"
!
Translated hy E. H,
PALMER.
HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR

DEAD.
Home
they brought her warrior dead

:
She nor swooned nor uttered cry

All her maidens watching said " She must
weep or she
will die."
Then they
Called
praised him, soft and low,
him
wortliy to be loved,
;
Truest friend and noblest foe
Yet she neither spoke nor moved,

Stole a
maiden from her

tli<;
place,
Lightly to
warrior stcpt,
Took the
face-cloth
from his face
Yet she neither moved nor wept.

Rose a nurse of ninety
Set his
cliilil iijxiii
years.
lier
knee
:
Like summer tempests came her tears

" Sweet,
my
child, I live for thee."
Alfukd Tknnyson.
FASH I KRALISSA
GAV.
" DORDI,
mi pal
ko jivela
1 i
Adr6 o boro ker adoi

"
Tu
dinnelo chal,
ki-cillissa
Ma
pen
tu's
kekker sliuned
o'
yoi
" I kushti rani
avali
Yoi kamela o churo mush,
Te
y6i's sa sTg 'dre lakis zi

i
For sar
"
kali fokis dush.
Sd viandy
Del kdn
sostijin
:
o' lis
adre o waver besh
Mdndy
te mlri roniani
krdllis'
Sos pirryin' pash o

"
w^sh.
Mdndy
te mlri romaiii
Sos jalHn k6ti gav acai
Te moro
chdvos, ketteni,
o'
Besbed pr6 o dumo
ye gry.
ENGLISH-GIPSY SONGS.
"
'
Oh, hatch a kusi, deari rom,'
Mi
'
poori juva penela
Ma jal
anduro
klnlo shorn
iâl
Kair nioro
l)itti
tan kenna.'
" Sos yeck wenesto divvus,
puv
SOS
pano saraprd
bdvol pudered fon shimdl

yiv peUed surrelo tul^y.
" Sos dush ta hatch a tan adoi
Adre adovo
Ko'll sikker
shillopen
mengy
cavacoi
Sossi Miduvel kairs o "

I
w^n
chavor rudered
pr(5
a hiy
tull'
Ta
latcher koshter
o yiv,
Te mdndy kaired o yag aprd

Sos diisheri ta kair
" Hukki,
til
lis jiv.
jins, aiiiAiidi
.sfirja
Idlrd
Trin chavus,
Iwckcli
Adre
ad6\'o ratti welled,

tikiior, kdttenl.
Dui waver
" Ovavo divvus vias a
mush
;
Sos
kralllssas
yagengro
'Ma
hatch kekunii 'dro o wesh
!'
Yuv
])fikked aiuengy, liiinualo.
lO
"
ENGL/SH-GJPSY SONGS.
Yeck
'
o'
mi
clulvos shelled avri
Rye,
(lick
a wongisli 'dr6 o tan-
Dick y^ckora, sa rlnkeni

I (lui ii6v\'i
tiknor slidu
"
Yuv
cliivdas sherro pash adrfe
Ah, SOS but dukkeri ta dick

I juva, shillerin' dovalay,
I tiknor,
beeno 'pr6 o chick.

'dv6 lester
" Sos
'
kammoben
Dai, dui
si
!
yak
'
pendas yuv aja
Ad6vo
too buti bak
For tute
" An' sa
'
tAcho, mlro ba
pii'ried sig
!
yuv
adr6m,
Dui, dui
'
SOS yuvs lAstus lav.

'drd
Pal,
shun kenna:
a
dovo shdm
Dlckdum
"
l)itti
Avîrdo av.
O
Si
yagengro sos
'
tullin lis
!
Rom,
dvacai
'
yuv pukked
aja,
chummeny
kushto, dick a
i
lis,
Sar bitchered fon

"
'
krdllissa.
Yoi's shuned
I dui tiknor
o' tiro
dukkerben
acai
chiwed
Ac6vo's lakis d(ilaben
For
tiri
chdvor te
dye.'
" Sos buti 'dre o wdrdo, pal
II
Dui bOro coppas

Habben,
avail
liillo
jêck wdliu
i
mol
Miduvel^st'
Eanis
zl
" Pasli riiikeni lieezis
shun kenna
;
Sos buti Utti hovalos
Yoi tivdas len

I rani pre
i
krAllissa
!
Gorgios
i
"
buro chdvos, sar
trin,
:
RivA'ed duvo hovalos apr6
Yul dicked sa kushto, prdsterin

Sa rinkeni chukkered, pre a
" Tacho, shan bdrvelo Gorgios,
Buti, adr(i acdvo tern,
lay.
Ko'd
kam
ta sikker hovalos
i
Tivvc<l pa
Kaiiis
nuko
fern.
"
Mi kamli juva
Tal'
Asti miiX
:
mOro
Tlanis delabon
Tdcho, mi kainava ta kair

Varisso, lakis
kammoben.
" If yoi kfuiK Fu niusli ta kur,
Shorn sar acai
I'al
4v aja
Mukks
pT a tds o' levinor

o'
For kam
moro
krdllissa !"
.Iankt Tuckkv.
TOLD NEAR WINDSOR.
" Look, brother
tell
me
if
you know
?
^\^lo lives in that big castle there
"
The Queen, you stupid
Now
don't go
A-sayin' you've ne'er heard of her.
" For she's a right good lady
yes,
She loves the poor,
ay, that she
do
And
she can feel for the distress

folk like
Of wandering
"
me and
you.
And how
Were
do I know that
last
Well, hark
One day
year
my
wife and
me
travelling
by Windsor Park
do you see
?
Those
"
trees out yonder,
My wife
The
and me were going along
Towards Windsor
^just
afore
you there-
children, all together, clung
Upon
the back of our old mare.
"
But
my
poor
let
girl said
rest,
'
:
Stop a bit
And
I can't
me
husband dear
fit
go further, I'm not

little
Just set our

"
tent
up
here.'
That was a
Avintry day,
my
lad
One whiteness over The

bitter north-wind
all
the place
like
blew
mad
The snow came

" I tell
stinging in one's face.
you 'twas no easy task

all
lu
that cold to jntch a tent
And
here's a thing I'd like to ask

is tlie
Why
"
cruel winter sent?
Under the snow the
children sought,
:
And
I
found some
a
fire
sticks, just four or five
made
of
what
tliey
brought
aHve.
'Twas hard to keep

" Already,
tlie fiaiiio
do you mind, we had
Three sons
cnougli to nuuiage for

my
lad.
Well, on that very night,
The
"
wife,
had twins
alter
ay, two boys more

I
The morning
came a gent
The Queen's head-gamekecptT,

Siiiil
knew
he
'
:
How
dan^ you stick your tent
Up
here,
you lazy Gipsy,
youT
14
"
ENGLISH-GIPSY
SOJVGS.
One
'
of
my little
chaps called out
Sir,
won't you look a bit in there,
And
see the babies

little
mother s got 1
Such pretty
"
things they are
He
put his head just half-way in
Ah, 'twas a cheerless sight he found
My wife,
The
"
poor dear,
a-shiverin',
babies, born
upon the ground.
He
'
looked with pity in his eyes

!
TA\dns, twins
'
he cried
'
why
there you got
Rather too much of a
surprise.
My
"
poor old fellow, did you not/?

he turned and
!
And when
'
left
us soon,
Twins, twins
:
'
again I heard him say.
Now listen
that same afternoon
A
"
little light-cart
came our way.
The gamekeeper wan driving

'
it
Come
on,'
he cried,
'
you've never seen
cart-load such as this, I bet
And
"
'
it's
a present from the Queen.'
She's heard
what
trouljles
you have had
Your two poor
babies,
born in there,
ENGL/SH-G/PSY SONGS.
And
of your wife who's lyin' so bad,

for her."
So she has sent these things

" Well, there
was plenty in that
cart
pair of blankets for
my
Avife,
;
Food, and a bottle
full of
all
port
God
"
bless that
Lady
her
life
There Avere some clothes
too,
and between
Lay
children's woollen stockings, those
She'd knitted
she herself the Queen,

!
The Lady
"
of the Gorgios
The
biggest children,
all
the three,
;
Put each a pair of stockings on
They looked
as pretty as could be,
Well shod, and trotting up and down.

'
Thought
there's
many
a Gorgio
the land,
Rich lords and
ladi(;s in
Who'd br
uiicDiimiiiii
proud to show
Socks knitteil by
tin- (^hiccn's
own
hand.
"
But
for that
Lady
I'd liavc hiid

;
To
8ee
my
wife die over there
Von needn't wonder, need you,

Tluit I'd
lad,
do anytiiing
for her.
ENGLISH-GIPSY SON OS.

So
she wants a
if
I'll
man
to box,
fight her battles,
never fear
'Twas dry work talking of them socks

Let's drink the Queen's
good health
in beer."
Janet Tuckey.
The
editor
lias
often lieard the incident here narrated from
an old Oipsy, well
known
in Windsor.
''JAL
AN!"
Pasii o 'the
boi',
kai stekka' sl)4n,
Pash o the rukk' sar p6ggadi
Beshdom kan
pTrdos chivved a tan

rfUvker Ii(jmniaiiy.
Te shund'em
Ye
bitti ch^vi' jian avrl

lei
To
I
bitt'
o kosht for leu
puri Liz,
but hunnali
liakkerdas bitti tiknos pen.
L6s.si
a nlsseri cuvva, kuu

puroiii
tanopen sims ye
Te
bijrodir paiAss to sliuu
Ye
Te
sa
tiknor rakkcrau
lu'iiuinniiy.
graior jian to
clifir,
Te
8a,
the yag sos kerclo
Avri o drum, te
prd' tlie bor,
Vas moro gdv-niush,
liunualo.
E.VGLJSH-G/PSY SOA'GS.
" Ja vrl
"
yuv rakker's
'11
as he willed
Or mAudj'
klisiu tiite, sar
"
:
" K^ress tu 'dulla," Lizzie shelled,
"Star laaudy
" Jal dn
"
'di'6
o kltchema."
pens o gavengero,
" Tute's
kek
sig to hatch acoi
"
!
" Tdcho "
"
pens Petuldngero
Kek
sIg to jiv
'kai or odoi
Sa sar ye pTredor
jailed An,
;
Awer
sigdn sos kushti sa
'Dre waver
drum
leu kairde tan
I 'kAvI bulleriu aja.
Te
sliunin lenders sdvvyins,

:
Pendum
Te
sa
kushto c6vva
jins,
si
For buti geeros mandy
sasti ja, sa sIg avrl.
Avrl o Lundramescro
jiv,
Kairin an' rakkei-in diunalo,
Avrl the k^rya,
vri the chiv,

slu'ui
Kai
ytil
sarjA
huunalo.
Hunn'lo o tdtto kairoben, Hunn'lo o sar

that's rlnkenl
Hunn'lo o kushto kammiibeu
Or
kairin sig sarja to be.
O, SOS a boro, kushto
pom
:
To shun
a mullo rakker
'dre
"
Man
Yeck gav-mush
Sav' p^n'lLa
:
Miduvels tem,
!
" Tul your chiv
jal
an
Charles
G. Leland.
''MOVE ON/"
By
the ragged hedge and stragghng fence,
Beneath the broken willow-tree,

I sat,
while Gipsies pitched their tents
Around, and chaffed in Rommany.
Tlie children,
who
could hardly walk.
Were
Old
sent to pick a bit of
wood
Liz, so fierce in all her talk, as a little infant should.
Spoke
Ah when old age grows young again And such old age it's strange to see And stranger still to think there should
!
Be baby-talk
in
liommany.
But, as the horses went to graze,
And
Out
as the fire
began
to burn.
of the lane,
among
the strays.
Came
our Inspector, grim and stern.
ENGl.ISH-G/PSY SONGS.
"
21
You know
"
that this won't do," he cried.

!
Be
off,
or I shall lock you up

that," old Liz replied,
" If
you do
" Please lock

"
me
in a cookin' shop." this forthwith
Pack and be out of
You know you have no

'
business here
Xo
"
we
hain't got," said
Samuel Smith.
No
business to be Anywhere."
So wearily they went away.

Vet soon were camped in t'other
lane,
ga}-.
And soon they laughed as wild and And soon the kettle boiled again. And
I
as they settled
down below,
could but think upon the bliss

1m;
'Twould
to
many men
know
tliis
To move
Out
of
tlii.s
as lightly " out of

life
"
:
of
morning
calls.
;
And weary
Thc.-ê
work, and wasted breath
prison cells of pictuicd walls,

arc.
Wliere they
always "
liorctl lo dcitii."
liorcd ])y ail kinds of cleverness,

ll(irc(l
by
tlic licautifid
and
fair
;
l!y love,
and joy, and tenderness

not bored, pretend they
Or,
if
an;.
22
F.NGUSH-GIPSY SONGS.
Oh, what a blessing
it
would be
To hear some
Some heavenly
Who'd
say, "
angel cry, "
Be gone
"
!
Inspector
C,
this
Now
none of
Move on
Charles G. Leland.
It is
perhaps almost neeiUess to say that this

I recall,
is
a sketcli
from
liave
life.
however, that
it
was not a Smith, but one
of the Matthews,
who remarked
to the Inspector that "
We
no right
to
Avho told
people."
me
be anywhere." Old Liz is the same Rommaiiy that she was sure the Shall was one of " the;
KERiiNGRI.
Tu pendas mengy " Sarishan ? De waver divvus, pal, acai

Adre acovva werry
Pens m^ndy "
" So's sikkereil
So's
tan.
ad6vo rye ?
sfi
lis
to be
flick,"
?
I pens, " at rrikkeriu luminiany
"
Kek
biiti
chals does
mandy
dick
For nmiidy's a kerdngeri. Ah, rye

a gAvs a wilfro tan
Shorn Piommani, / kfuns ye droni
Avo
fon
tv.lp.
" s.irislian
"
%
And
gorgio's
jil)
fon
nnko rom
Iv
II.
I'Ar.MHi:
THE HOUSE-DWELLER.
You
passed
me by
1
this
weny
way,
An' " Sarishcm

I've often
"
you said
to me.
wondered, since that day,
What
Says
sort of person
you might be
I,
" Them's Gipsy words he spoke,

ha' learnt,
But where could he

I
and how % "

folk,
don't see
much
o'
Eomm'ny
sir,
I'm
livin' in
a house,
now.
I hate this sort o' life, I
do
I'm Rommany, and want

Just fancy
!
to roam.
" sarislian
? "
from you,
And
only English talk at
home
E.
H. Palmkk
This
poem
ii3
true to
life
in every line, as
it
was expressed
ofi"
lo the writer
by a Gipsy woman who had

tlie
left
wandering.
The word pal
or Ijrother is very characteristic.
man who
addresses
humblest Gipsy in
It
Any gentleRommany jnust

it is
expect to be called pal, not disrespectfully, but because

incident to the language.
is,
prala in
otlier countries.
r6mmani posserben adre

CHlRUS.
puro
A TIKNO, rya ?
Avali, yeckorus araandi

mOro puro
tAii,
o'
lelled yeck,
;
l)itti
chdvi, sa rinkeni sa tute
kamessa ta dick
Kana
Sos
yoi vias aratti adr(i
peiisi
dud
the sfda a-iifikkeriu Sruishrui.
Mill juva SOS but mishto, te sa lakis tikno te yoi
Sos b(islun tuller
rukkor
yeck
t(^
masker
ruzhior adoi,
Mi
lAtclierdum
mui6ngri
man
dicked
drO
buddika, rye,
1
fuki
p6ndis SOS Miduvel a-beshin

juva, te
'dr6
pfisli
k'sker dyt
myla,
i
mdndy
jflssede k6tteiu;.s 'pre o didia
'Sur
cliiivi
yeck trusharo
oli,
shomas a
Ijfiktdlo
lioin
Tt! ki'iiia
i
ratti sos wcjllin, sar

iiioro
dur
foii
;j,;'ivior,
<'
Anidudi hatclied
iTisli
tan pash o tatto rikk
the
boi'.
o yag, rikkoru.s o tan, mendfii bcslidina alay,

aja kiln
i
Te rakkered'
8a men
liavi sos
sutto
i
])rd\'i'ni)
ailn'.
sosti sikker laki ta kil 'drc
wellgitn'ts,
Tf
lei
but a<iusta won'Mir a-dukkerin Gortrios.
26
Awer,
'dr6 o
rinkeno chlrus, te pali o boro wen,
;
Moro
Lakis
dâii kfimeli chilvi lelled o wdfro ndflopen

taiii i)IiTor
sos shillo, sar shilleri sims

lulkle,
yiv,
Awer
lakis
chAmyor
peusi ruzhior raAsker
giv.
Miri juva pukkcrdas K6ti gav, te
mdndy
"Eom, hatch
apr6 te ja
mang
o drabengro ta klster acai kenna."
Mi
lelldum drabengro, awer kun amdndi welled ketteni,

iiasti
Mi dickdum yuv Mi juva
kair
cliIcliT
chavi sos s6ved avrl.

lav,
rov6lla buti,
awer mandy pendum kek
Till apre o
waver pash-dfvvus a mush
avell' fon o
gav
Lester ruderpen sikkeras
mdndy yuv
k(5
sos a boro rashdi
Yuv kamed
Yiiv
to rakker bat covvas
m^ngy
till
te mlri chi.
rakkered,
te
mandy shundom,
lAstus
yuv
pukker's aja
" Tute'll
kam
to chiv tiri chAvi 'dr6 o
kdngry puv kenna
Si a kushto
c6vva to hatch 'dr6
lock o' Miduvel's
ker "
" K^kker,
kekker,
râ
"
mi
sh6lldum,
" mi'd
kam
siggadiro to mer."
" Si ad6vo a tAcho covva, mi rya, so tute pen,

0' ye f6ki hdtchin apr6 'dr6 o boro shunaben,
Miri
cliAvi'd
m6r
apopli, yoi'd Icl sa tr.-isheni,
If yoi dickdas a tan o' Gorgios
pash lakis kokeri.
" I tani sosti sov kai
2/
kameli ruzliior shdn

dials avellan to hatch o tan
i
Kai
tdclii
Rommani
Kai, sar o tatto divvus
invv'i
chiriclos
pukk,
apr6 o rukk."
Te o rukestamengro huckers, lelhn
}iIvlor
Mi ghiom
Tuller
adre o w(jsh, te
mi kairdum
hev shukAr
:
Yeck boro rinkeno rukk

biiti
sos
mi
dearis sherro-bar
ruzhior yoi bdsheka pukeno adre
Awer mdady
penAva, mi rye, yoi'U kekker hushti apr^
Janet Tugkey.
A GIPSY BURIAL IN THE OLDEA TIME.
A A
BABY,
little
sir
surely, yes
a long while since
we had
one,
;
daughter, as pretty as e'er you set eyes upon
She came to our poor old tent in the darkest hour of the
night.
And,
I tell you, it
seemed
as if day'd
broke sudden, to
cheer us with light.
My
wife was wonderful glad
and when she and that
baby of ours
Were
sitting together,
sir,
under
trees, in
the midst of
flowers,
I
used to remember a picture I'd seen in a shop long ago;
'Twas the Lord by His mother's side

there told
at least the folk
me
so.
We'd travel along all

good
day, the donkey, myself, and
my wife,
With the baby in one of the panniers

real
life
!
ah
that was a
And when
the evening came on, in the quietest spot
we
could find.
We'd pitch our tent by the hedge, on the opposite

from the wind.
side
EA'GUSH-GIPSY
Xear the
fire,
SON'GS.
29
and myself
just close to the tent, mj' wife
would
sit,
And
talk for a
while of the child, Avlio'was sleeping
inside of
it
How
An<l
careful we'd
bring her up to dance at the fairs
some day,
tell
Gorgios' fortunes,
S(t
as to
charm
their
money
away.
iJut just as
the winter passed, and the beautiful spring-
ilawn smiled,
fever
went through the

!
land,
and she took
it
our
only child
Cold, ay, colder than sn(w

little feet,
was the touch of her poor
Hut her cheeks

the wheat.
wc.-re
burning red,
like the poppies
among
Said her mother to
me
at night
" Ki.ê quickly.
hus-
band dear
(Quickly,
and run
to the town,
and fetch us
tlie
doctor
here."
1
went, and
fetch<,'<l
liini
back, l)ut as soon as
looked
at the Ijed,
I
knew
wa.s
that he'd cfone ton
late, for
my
little
daughter
dead
RNGLISH-G/PSY SONGS.
My
And
wife
cried
bitter,
but
could only
sit
stupidly
down,
I
hadn't a word,
till
next day a gentleman came
from the town
preaching gentleman,
d'ye see
sir,
knew
it
by
his clothes,
And
he
set himself
down by my
side,
and preached
to
my
He
Till
wife and me.
talked,
and we
let
him
talk,
and never answered a
word,
he
said, " You'll

?
be wanting to bury your baby in
our churchyard
In
tlie
shadow of God's own house

"
'tis
a blessed thing
to lie
But " Never, never!"

die
"
!
I cried
" no,
sir, I
would sooner
Said
"If
it's
really true, certain
and
true, Avhat
you
say.
That the folk
will rise
from their graves on the Lord's
great judgment-day,
Why,
She'd
if
my
child
was
to
wake with a crowd
of Gorgios
in sight,
feel so strange, I believe she'd die
over again with
fridit.
E.XGL/SH-GIPSY SONGS.
"
My
little
darling
must
sleep
where the beautiful flowers
grow;
"Where
tlie
squirrel gathers his nuts, leaping merrily to

;
and
fro
Where
of
the Gipsies
may
pitch their tent at the closing
summer
eves,
And
birds thrijugh the
summer days may
sing under
shadowing
leaves."
So
went and
wood,
dug a grave
in the quietest part of the
Where a
tree,
grown higher than the

;
rest, for
my
baby's
headstone stood
And
But,
there,
still
under many flowers, she
is
lying so calm and
sir,
as for rising again, why, I don't think she ever
will.
Janet Tuckey.
In the old times, or

tlieir
till
witliin fifty years, the

jilaces
;
Gi]).sio.s
tlii-y
Iniricd
dead
in lonely
and remote
lut
now
mani-
fest ^Teat
anxiety to .secure
Ciiristiiui Inirial,
and incur con-
siderable expense in funerals.
Tiic .ame clian^'e has taken
place with regard to tlieir iiHlillerence to a future sUvte, or

11
disbelief in
it
tlieir
irreli^don
all
liaviii},'
been
in
reality
ignorance of and hostility to

of civili.sation.
tlie
rules
tlie
and
institutions
The younger
Gipsies of
better class
wouM
now
generally be offended
if
any
doul)t of tlieir Cliristianity
32
were expressed.
or, rather,
ENGLfSH-G/PSY SONGS.
But that some
relics of the
" creed outworn,"
mind of the modern Gipsy, may be inferred from the fact that very recently, and since the foregoing ballad was written, a young
of ancient custom,
still
linger in the
Rommany
some wild
\t\\c]^ tlieir
girl
of superior attainments
protested that she
w'duld not like to be buried in a churchyard, but rather in

place, wliere lier
tents.
Gipsy kinsfolk would come and

J. T.
O TACHO ROM.
drom,
Oh, mundy's ydck
o'
lender as jrd apre
tlie
tdcho Petul6ngro an' a kushto pure Kom.

si
Miro kako
a Chilcott, miri dya
si
a Lee,
Awer mdn
sliura ferridlro an' a
kalo
R6mmany.
An' a tacho Rommany,

'Pre
ml
niortclii, 'dre
mi
zl.
Wlio-op
Dick adre ml yakkor, an pukker
"Avali
"
!
Mdndy
jals to
ye welgoras, radndy's sarasar adui

te
Yeck divvus longo-duro, Vcck divvus
waver kavacoi
kusliti rudered, dickin sims a boro rye,
Dcnn' sa a mangerm^ngro, a-tulin of yer gry.

" Just a rupp'ni bitto, rye,
For
Wlio-op
!
a-tulin of yer
arfitti
gry
mfindy jins
to klstcr off a gry
Wlien I'm cliinnin
o' tlio
peggor, maiidy dicks

si
sfi
pilkkenn,
Tute'd pen dnv' Pctuliingro
a tdclio vaccaslio
lion),
But
Pm
flicknor
o'
my
wAstors nor any waver

jrd.s aprti
An' can muller any geero as
the drom.
At
kurin, m.-lndy sliom
Sig to bonger, sig to sloni
Oh, at ddllin or at kcllin
Pm
a t.-'uhodiro lloni.
34
Sarishan,
ENGfJsn-G//'SY SONGS.
mi
gudli rani
lei
sarishdn,
mi kushto rye
Milndy's juva'll
your wongur kAn yoi
av^ll' akdi.
Tute'll kani to del la
cliummeuy
to pi
your kammoben,
she
So
I'll
hatcher pal' the kuiisus while
pens your
ilukkerin.
Oh
Then
there'll
be a pukkerin,
An' a boro rakkerin,

I'll
pen you kushti
ratti
till
w6ll this
dr6m
again.
Charles
G. Leland.
THE REAL
GIPSY.
Oh
I'm a jolly Gipsy, and
roam the country round

:
I'm a real Petulengro as can anywhere be found
My
15iit
uncle
is
Cliilcott,
all
my
mother
and
is
a Lee,
I'm the best of
of 'em,
real Ilonnnany.
A real Rommany
From head
to foot I be.
Whoop
go to
look into
my
peepers
if
a Gipsy you would see
fairs
and
races, thea-
I'm always to be found
One day
across the country, then back ui)on the

swelly, like
ground
One day I'm dressed up

course,
the gentleman
(if
Then the
horse.
lu-xt
come the beggar,
a holdin'
of yer
" Just a tiirccpcfnce,
sir.
All right
For
\Vlio-oj)I
held him
a.s
jolly tight."
to run a hor.M
I'm the boy

night
knows the way
by
36
ENGUSH-G/PSY SONGS.
a cuttin' of
When
my
skewers, so peaceable I am,

is
You'd say, " That Petuleiigro
the pattern of a lamb
But I'm handy with

showed,
my
maulies, as I
many
a time have
An' can do
for
!
any traveller as goes upon the road.

at fightin' I'm at
Oh
For
home,
Quick to dodge
an' quick to
come
at hittin' or at shyin' I'm
an out-an'-outer
Kom
my
lord
1
How
are you,
I say
my
sweet lady
how
are you,
My
wife'll
take your
money when
she comes along this
way.
You'll
want
to give her something
^just
to keep
away
the cold
So
I'll
step
round the corner
--vhile
your fortune's bein'
told.
Then
there'll
be a patterin',
An' an awful chatterin'

So
I bid
you
all
good evenin'
till I
come
this
way
again.
Charles
G.
Leland.
TdVER.
Wanty
Kdk dur
had cliivved a
bi'tti
tdn,
;
fon Lilengrdsky gAv
Te dlckdas a ml and a push
o' ran',
A
A
boro'in pasli
as
o'
the duiyav.
Awer
yuv
sa sig
o'
and
flick
wasta-pord
de rdnya chins,
Sc4vo should well adoi an' dick.
But
mush
as l6lled
de tan, you jins

!
Avail, Wiifro,
\v;ifro si
Te wafro bak
An* Wanty
for de
Rommani
dials.
acdi,
For de Gorgiko rye has welled

lias
nashered his tiWer, pals
Adovo
sus
dilsli
for the mu.sli,

/,T
;
\w.
welled
K6rri apopli with p(')ggado
Kek rdnya
Te
"
keti de tanya
1l'11c(|,
yiiv's rinkeni tover jailed avri.

!
Oh
mi'indy wouldn't ha' lulled a
biir,
Nor
dfii
nor yet
if
yer delled mi trin
For adova t6ver
o' tc')vers
sar
Ad ova
sus kushtiest ta chin.

si
!
Avail, wAfro, wdfro
&c.
Oh
deari juva
oh
\mv\ dye
!
Oh, pAlor and
cliAlor
and Romni and

G6rgiko rye.
Rom
Oh An
prAster
a^rI
k6ti
pen sar ttikeno mdndy shorn,

ja
Te mAndy'll kek-kekkumi
chorin' covvas at Idsker tan,
Kek-kumi apdpli
kîr aja,
Kek-kumi
apopli chin a ran.

sT
!
Avali, wafro, wafro
"
c^'c.
Oil
l6sker pal
and
and
l(5skri
pdn,
Te
U'sker dddas
Idskri dye,
Shall jalliu ta mfing de shunaben
0' de boro, bArvelo, Gorgiko rye.

"
Oh
161
i
the tan tal6 o bor

so shAn adr6
sar,
Te
sar
!
C(')vvas
Oh
1(j1
de wArdo, o gry te
(\A
lis
A\ver d^l de tover
opr6
si
"
!
Avail, kushto, kushto
Oh
An'
kUshto bak for de Ronimany dials.

jailed avrl,
!
For the Oorgiko rye has
Wanty
has latch ered his tdver, pals

E.
IT.
Palmer.
THE HATCHET.
Wanty
When
had pitched
his little tent
Near Cambridge
in the
meadows wide,
he saw an osier-bed that went
mile along the river-side.

as he cut so fast
But
and
free
Tlie osiers with a nimble hand,
Whoever should he chance

Tint the
to see,
tlie land.
!
gentleman wlio owned

!
Oh, dear
we
ain't in luck to-day
Oh
it's
bad, bad luck for the Gipsy lad
Ff)r the farmer's
come and
lie's
taken away
The
Iteautiful
axe that Wanty
liad.
Oh
that was bad for the lad

l)ri>ken-he,art('d
he went
;
HdiDc
ami
all
alone
Never took an
osier
back to the
wjis lost
tent,
An' his beautiful axe Says he, "

I
and gone.
wotddn't ha' taken a pound,

if
Nor two
nor yet
y<T
'_'iv
nie three,
40
ENGUSH-G/PSY SONGS.
For that axe
in all the country
round
There was none

Oh, dear
"
like that for fellin' a tree.

!
we
ain't in luck to-day, &c.
Oh And Oh
!
run dear wife, and mother too,

brother and
sister,
and
lass
and lad
!
run away to the farmer, do

so sorry I'm almost
Say I'm
I'll
mad.
never
never go there no more

land
;
stealin' anythin' off his

I'll
And
never do like I've done before,

osier with this 'ere hand.
!
Xor touch an
Oh, dear
Off went his
we
ain't in
luck to-day
his mate,
"
&c.
sister, off
went
Off went his father, and mother too,
To beg
With
"
for
pardon
anri
make
it
straight
that good, kind farmer so well to do.

!
Oh
take
away the
to
tent we've pitched.
The camp from top
bottom sack
Oh
To
take the van and the horse that's hitched
the shafts
but give us the hatchet back."

hooray
!
Hooray
well done, I say
Good
The
luck for the Gipsies, instead
o'
bad
farmin' gent has gone away,
And
given the
liatcliet
back,
my
lad
E. H.
Palmki;
ENGLISH-G/PSY SONGS.
Tlie story of Waiity
11
is strictly triie,
with the exception of
The Gipsy \vas engaged with a friend in getting -wood from a hedge when they were suri^rised by the farmer, who punished them in the manner described. I was in the camp by the river when the two unfortunates
returned, and were obliged to give an account of the loss to a
change of name and place.
who had lent them the hatchet. I have heard "wales" and outcries in my life, but nothing like what occurred on this occasion. The reader who would form an idea of the scene niay, however, find something resembling it ill the Prologue to the Fourth Book of Eabehiis, where the small country gentlemen bewail their loss of the same instrument. '' Verily, they cried out, and brayed, and prayed, and bawled, and invoked Jupiter My hatchet my hatchet Jupiter, my hatchet The air round about rung again with the cries and bowlings of these rascally losers of liatchets." The .solemn tone with which the owner, looking out from the window of his van, pronounced an oration over the missing article, thereby tacitly wounding the feelings of the losers, was a study for an actor. " I wouMn't a' taken four Ijob for
third Gipsy
:
I ! .
that hatchet," he said

I
" and
wouldn't
a
a'
taken
five,
nor
.si.\
wouldn't
a'
taken eiyht
a'
nor
jiound
and
it.
(rising to
I've
a
it
clinia.x) I wouldn't
taken NO money for
had
with
me
in all
my
travels it was the best hatchet on the road
week since I gave a man a Here the loser, in accents (jf con" Nobody could a' done more than I diil trition, e.\claimed to get it back. and I most went down on Jiiy knees for it by an' by, when I goes to beg him again, I vil/. Ami I never will be siicli a fool as to gr) a chorin kosh (stealing wood) out of any man's hedge by daylight agin never no more."
or anywhere.
It an't inori-'n a
shillin for siiarjienin of it."
:
He
did, presently, reinforced
by
his family,
make
iin
.ippcal
which was successful, and the axe was returned
to liiin.
MERIBEN PA KAMMOBEN.
Mi ghlom aduro
Te o G6rgio
dyescri tAn,
vias to latcher
man
Sos s^lno pAtrinor 'pr6 o shock Sos kushto

teller
i
rukkor lock
Yuv
Kek
(lickdas a iiK^ngy sa kameli
jindas mi shomas
Kommani.
kiim pushed rlnkeno 'pr6 mendai
Yuv Yuv
Fon
dickdas 'dr^ miro kalo mui,

:
Mirl krdi yakkor, mi kalo fern
pandas
a
" Av^ss' fon a wjiver temhuti-dur avrl?"
tiltto tern
Kekkcr jiukkdom mi slidmas R6mmani.

" Av6ss' sar
mdndy
"
yuv manged
te
aja
Man mukkerdom
Kekkumi ghiom
To pukker
i
dddas
dye
te sa
kdti tan tulAk,
palyor kushto hak.
Yuv rummerdas mdndy sa tacheni, Awer kekkor jinned shomas Kommani.
ENGLfSH-GIPSY SONGS.
Jiviiv' 'drill o
43
rinkeno ker kenna,

:
Awer
shorn but trisheni sarasa
Yeck divvus ml rye
shunella, shyan,
tilii
Leskri chi sos beeno adrln a
Te
f('tki
'vel
pukker sa vassavi
so
" Dick o
mush
rummered a Rommani
shorn kek Gorgio,
"
!
Si shunella ke
man
Yuv
te vel sa laj lester k6kero,
Yuv'll
kam
to gaver adrin o ker

!
Oh, kanilo rom, mdndy'd sigger m^r
Mandy'd
sTgger jal sarasar avrl

lAj
T(5nna kair tut'
ap
Kommaiii.
Yoi ghias sa
sig keti doe^'av
Yoi pukkdas y^ckli o ryas ndv Yoi hdtchdas ad6i pilsh o paiini kin,
Te wusserdas kokeri
" Pa tiro
sTg adriu
kammoben
tlri
avali
Jankt
rrcKF':Y.
Merava kenna,
licimmani.
GIPSY
DEATH FOR
LOVE.
WANDERED
leaves
far
from
my mother's
tent
I
Alone through the shade of the woods
went
Where
grew greenest, wliere

shadow,
trees
I.
were high,
We
met
in the
my
love
and
So kindly and fondly he gazed
at
me
But he did not know
was Kommani.
He
led
me
out Avhere the sun shone down,
He He He
I
looked at
looked in
said,
my my
face tliat
eyes,
was Gipsy-brown
and he took
my
%
hand
"
"You come from

I M-as
a distant land
From
a warmer country across the sea
never told
love
Rommani.
said.
"Come,
I left
1
"
he
AVlien I heard
all
him
call,
my
mother and home and
never turned to the tent again,

bid goodbye to the Gipsy men.
To
My
Gorgio married
me
I
faithfully,
But he never knew
was Rommani.
45
And now
They'll
I live like
a lady here,
But I'm never

tell
safe
from a thought of fear

scorn,
;
my
husband some day, with

his wife
Of the Gipsy tent where
was born
"
!
And
the folk will cry
when he
passes, " See
The man
If
that married a
Eommani
he knew
me
for
one of the Gipsy race,
He
could never look Gorgios in the face,

all
He'd be glad to hide in the house

husband
!
day
I'd sooner
go far away,
And
death would be easier far to

seeing you ashamed
of your
me
Rommani.
Than
.She rose,
and soon to the stream she came
But once she whispered her husband's name

She stood awhile by the water-side.
Then
cast herself in the flowing tide.
" 'Tis for love of you,
dear heart " said she;

]>y
"Now
you'll never
be shamed
the liDininani."
Jam"!' Tuckky.
I Ijclievc
Alice Cooper told
that the story given in this \w\\\ is rjuitc tnie. me of a Gipy girl who, liaving niarrii-il n
rcsjiectable Englialiman,
committed
suicide, the reaHon being
that she had kept licr Eoiimiaiiy origin a secret,
and was
afrai.l,
46
if it
ENGLISIJ-G/PSY SONGS.
were found out, her husband would be ashamed of her.
herself.
"
Alice was quite sure that no fear of his anger caused her to
drown
would
Roniuiany
find
" She
She was alaj licr rye would latcher she was was ashamed her gentleman-husl)and that she was Gipsy," was the simple explanation
"
of the sad event.
In Weybridge Churchyard, within a mile from the })lace where I heard this, there is a tombstone placed over the grave of another Gijisy gui named Roland, who drowned herself for love.
It
may
be easily seen from the road, as
it lies
just
by the
wall.
O FOTOGRAFENGRO.
"
MiRO
" 'S
rya," pendas o
is
Rommani,
?
tiro
prettygraph lolled
Tu
sosti dlckavit
uvali
was
dolled.
'T divvus nil noko
"
The mush
as kair'd o'
ml landskip
Pitsered to k6iavit buro.
Fdndom
mdiidy,
'
Sutcho
if
t isn't
tdchu,
Tu
" Lis
nAsti lellav a horro.'
rigdom adru miro
slicrro aja,
That apre mlro
liovalo
crdfnies, hi,
Shdn tdcho deshdui
Te y6ck
"
crdfni sos ndsherdo.
An' kdna
It
t'
landskip soi
o'
lullo,
zT,
aye,
kaired mdn' sTg

sfir o'
mi
For
them
cnifnies shdnas cidoi,
'Cfpt the ycck as sos polled avri.
48
*'
EN'GL/Sn-G/PSY SOiXGS.
So peiiava
'dul'
mush
si
a
:
Ucheno mush
As ever
plrried
a puv
Kdna Rommanis kum
muidngerls,
Bitchava len sar to yuv."
Charles
G.
Leland.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER.
"
My
master," said the Gipsy man,

?
" Is your prettygrapli in your ])ook
You ought
So
tliat
to have seen
it
wlieu mine was drawn,
not a thing was mistook.
" Tlie fellow
who took my
it
landscaj-)e perfessed
He'd make
'
the best in
I,
'
town
don't, I'm blessed
!
Wery
well,'
says
if
you
If I gives
you a
single
brown
f)n
"
Now,
says to myself,
'
my
:
leatiier tiglits
A
A
dozen of buttons
is
sewn
dozen he ought to give by

Ilexceptin' the one as
is
riglits,
gone.'
"
But when that landskip was done

I tell
so fair,
you,
it
took
o'
me down
For every one
them
buttf)ns
was
there,
Ib'.xceptin' the
one as was gone.
50
"
So
I 'olds that
chap
is
a Aoorable chap,
As hever on earth
I see
An when
I
any one wants a prettygraph done,
sends 'em along to he."
Charles G. Leland.
The
incident embodied in this song was narrated to
me
in
all seriousness
by a Gipsy
and were
it
not for the rhyme and
metre, I might say that it is here given almost in his words, " prettygraph " and " landskip " being used, under the iml)ression that they
were quite
correct.
ROMMANY GILLI.
"
Kai
SOS tu, rinkeno chAvo, kai
" Apr(5 at ye well-goro, pals;
An'
An'
huckered a gry,
a rye,
I cli('jred
An' sar for ye
kum
o'
ye
Rommany
'
chAls
" "
Kai
SOS tu, riiikeni juva, kai

at ye l)5ro gdv,
Apre
my
pals
An'
dukkered a
rani,
An' chored a kani,

An' sar for ye
kam
o'
ye Il6mmany
chills
"
!
"
"
Kai 80S tu
dfvvus, puri dye
"
1
Apr6
at ye farmin' kdr,
my
]ials
And
I
kalico sala
drAljljod a biilo,
An' sar
for
ye
kam
o'
ye
IWmmany
chAls
52
"Kai shdn
''
tu,
boshom^ngro, kai?"
Oil,
mdndy
An'
shorn sar akAi,
mi
pals
nicindy'll kill,
gill,
An' ye juva'll
An' sar for yc
kam o'ye Eommaby

E.
chdls
"
!
H. Palmer.
A GIPSY SONG.
"Oh, where have you

"
been,
Oh,
have been up at the
my bonny lad T' fair, my boys,
With a hack
to sell,
And
Anil
all for
cheated a swell.
!
the love of the Gipsy boys
" Oh, "
where have you been,

I
my
pretty
maid?"
boys
Oh,
have been up at the town,
my
And
Wliich
I
a fortune I've told,
iVnd this chicken b(;hold,

stole for the love of the Gij)sy boys
"
!
'
Oh, where have you been, old mother, to-day

I
1'
" Oil,
have been up at the farm,
my
boys
And
I
needn't say
how
"
!
poisoned a sow,
the
lovi-
And
all for
of the (Jipsy boys
54
"
ENGL/SH-G/PSY SONGS.
Oh, where are you now,
" Oh, I
am And
all
here at
my fiddler lad hand, my boys

;
"
%
I'll
scrape the strings,

sings,
"
!
While the romali
And
all for
the love of the Gipsy boys

E. H.
Palmer.
O LIVIN^NGRJ TEAL
Talla grya
Well
Jiisa
sir
shau prdstered,
te o
Uttopen's avrl,
Si the livinengo chlrus for the poori dn,
R6mmani
feiii.
mi
tAchi palya,
if
you've chichi 'dre your
mengy kctteuescrus
kcti Livini^ngrl-tem.
gill aj.i,
Mukk amandi Mukk amandi

wÛ
gill sar-sa
Si the livin(5ngri kedyin
kcnna
Oh,
I
\v6shor
safrdni, te
ruzhior sove adrc,

:
pivlia sh.^n sar bruni, tc patrinj-a pciU alAy
^la kcssur for the ruzhior,

I
ma
kcssur for the rukk,

;
liviniingrT ruzhior
shau kushtider to dick
Yiil
shan sa rinkeni
j'rd
Milkk's
sTg avrl
81 the livinongri chlrus
avali
selno sim a w<5sh
:
The
An'
kushters luUch sar ruzno pensa karom(ingro mush,

tiie
livincngris kair leu'
Ijfiti
Oh,
T.'
tute'll
kekker Idtcher a rink'nodiro pem,

tlie
a tAtto kushto divvus 'dvd
Livineiigrl-tein.
Oh, the dadas an' the dye,
An' the
ch.-'ivo
an' the chi

I
Adoi
f-arll lei
sonnakai
5(3
ENGUSN-GIPSY SONGS.
livindngror shau sa buti sumeli aja,
:
Tu'd pAtser tu sos beshin 'dnn a boro kltchema
Tu sum^ssa
Te
()
kushto l^vinor kun tute tAders bAv'

prdstram^ngro ndsti i)ukk a chinger'n Idv
!
Avdfro
Tid the gry, tAcho pal

Lei the tan avrl, ml chal
Amdndi
KAua
shorn
kammoben
to jfd.
ratti veil' adoi, ten amdndi'll
besh akiy,
Mandy'll kair o yag, an' pander the kekavi dovapre

If Gorgios pilkker
"SossTl" mdndy'll rakker
'em
"
!
" Chichi,
T>ut a
droppus muttermdngri for
chOri
gill,
Rommani
An' amdndi'U kam
to
An
we'll
kur an
we'll kill,
An' sove 'dr6 the kalopen sar shiU.

Tdlla sar the kddyin's kcirdo, te
mdndy
lels
ml wye,
Mdndy'll kin a rink'no cliukko an' a shuba for ml chi
An
mendui'll kin trushnls to bikin Idngs o

si l)ut
drum
Oh, the livinengro chlrus
kushto for the linm
Adrin o kalopen,
Adrin o
shillo
wen,
!
Mukk's
gilli o'
the Livinengrl-tem
Janet Tuckey.
KENT;
OR,
THE HOPPING-TIME.
When
Our
the summer-time
is
gone, and the races
all
an- run,
:
luck's not over yet, for the
hopping has begun

everything
is
So come,
We'll
all
my
be
Gipsy brothers,
if
spent,
off
together to the pleasant land of
Kent
And And
well
all
sing in time,
"we'll all
sing in rhyme,
song of the merry hopping-time.
Oh, the flowers are fading

])rown
;
fast,
ami the nuts are growing
Tin; leaves are turning yellow,
and the wind
will
l)low
them down
I')Ut ut)
matter
for tiie flower,
and no matter
for tin-
trt-c,
Tin; hops are
all
the flowers
would ever cam

all
to
sei;
They're the best of
that grow,
So get up,
lads,
and go
Iom'.
To
the country where the hops luing
58
in line, like the
There the poles stand

Queen,
men
that serve the
And
the hines twist around them, and cover
them with
green
There's no prettier sight,
Irt
the rest be what they may,
Tlian a fine Kentish hop-field on a sunny
autumn
day.
Come, Gij^sy boys
so tall,
Come, Gipsy children small

There's
money waiting yonder
for us all
Oh, the
are,
air smells so
sweet where the ripe hop-blossoms
You'd think you

It's
Avere sitting in a jolly alehouse bar
just like drinking beer in with every breath
you
draw
Oh, sure
'tis
a wonder that
it's
not against the
law^
Bring the horse and the tent

We'll none of us repent
Having gone
to the pleasant land of Kent.
We'll pitch our

done.
little tent,
and at night when work
is
We'll
sit
round the
fire,
and
we'll
it,
hang the
kettle
on
should
And
if
Gorgios ask what's in
we'll say, "
What
there be
In the poor Gipsies' kettle but a
little
drop of tea
"
?
59
And And
Then
"When
all
we'll sing half the night,

we'll
dance and we'll

till
fight,
we'll sleep
the sun rises bright.

Ave'll
the hops are picked, then
travel to the
town.
And And
I'll
buy a
coat,
and
my
Avife will
buy a gown.
we'll get a stock of baskets
and sweeping-brushes
too
Oh, the hopping keeps us going

through.
all
the dreary winter
So when nights are cold and long,

Let us sing loud and strong,
And remember
the hopping in our song.
In answer to the cominon (iuestion, "

a living
?
How
do Gipsies make
would say that during spring and summer they attend races and fairs, or haunt picnics and merry-makings, where their Aunt Sallys .ind cocoa-nuts are in demand, and where fortune-tolling and begging arc tolerated, as giving When tin's liai>i)y tiiue is over, occasion for fun and raillery. many of them go " linpping," ami tlius earn eiiougli to lay in a stock of baskets, clotlies-lines, and similar wares. Tliey then wander all over England, each fandly taking its particular " l>eat." Afl the men have less to do at this season, the peddling baskets being entirely in the liands of the women, they
" I
i>ccu]y
i.e.,
making
themselves with " chiimin koslilors," or cutting sticks, SonietimcH feeders or clr)ths-pins and skewers.
baskets, but this
they
make
owing
to the cheapness of
becomes every year more unusual French basket-ware. Those among
6o
them who
are
ENGLISn-GlPSY SONG^.
more prosperous
hard and
or intelligent deal in horses
traffic.
at all times,
(lipsies -work
many
becoiuing rich by the

retire early.
;
As
a rule,
There
is
an impression
not
that they subsist

fathers
by
stealing
but whatever the sins of their

present
may have
been, the
generation does
I
generally deserve such a character.
From what
have seen
as honest
of Gipsies, I should say that they are,
on the whole,
them.
I
as the corresponding class of equally ignorant
English people.
can recall, in
Carlyle,
Tliey rarely betray a
man who
trusts
lelation to this, having once heard,
from
Mr Thomas
an interesting anecdote of a Scottish Gipsy, who, having borrowed a sum of money, faithfully returned it. I have never heard of a " Rommany Rye" being robbed by a Gipsy.
SHVNALI RAKLL
SfG asa apr6 o BOro Divvus,
Kek'no gudlo shundom man
tasala,
Awer
pan6ngri loiigoduro
sliillo Ixlvol.
Gillyin 'drc o piddviio,
Sig asa apr(i o Euro Divvus,
Muscro tamlopen
to Irdlo sula,
i
K4na
Chfrki gliids sar

anvias sara
cliii"klor
Kdna dud
lifdcus.
Viinka shundom
mu
adrd
wdslior,
Pdnsa choro mdiiiish te martadas,
Te
ad(inna cljingerben, te korbcn,

o' Indi.
P(5nsa boro hotchcrin
Slgdum
ni(i
adoi ta dfck atlullo,

l)ar nic
Te
aprci
a br>ro
dfckdoni,
Pash
o' lister
wanlo
hutcliiio surnT,
bcslida..
Vaster Lock o IJoinaiiny puk'no
62
Putchdom Te
" Tfikey
si
o dadas puvdo,
hotcliessca tu
kenuu o vurdo,
:
P^nsa
taclio
Eomalo, Silvester
P^nsa
niort piireiii
Eomi
fuki
" Ora tukey
si I
kusliti dya,
Savo dlckdas dr6 sa-buti wAstor 1
Yoi Sa
te v6l
pen dukkerin kekkumi,
viAs la k6ti hev, patsava."

sT
" Miro ddda
kenna dr6 Lundra
Minni dya
si
akai,"
yuv pdndas,
" ]\lAn hotcliciva dul' pa jidi rakli,
Awer
*'
miillo si sarja
amcngy.
utar,
Jala
Irdii
purus
ktiti
Boro-panni-tem
slilmAl amdngy,
si
Dulla wafri rakli

Piivdo, miillo
"
si
amdngy
avrl te divvus
kiirikus ta
Mendi shdnas
rummer
Boro kushto halabeu sos kiido
Liom mdndy
(M6ro
"
kushtidlro cuvvar
Eommauo
b(5slidas
rye sarkan pessddas).
Eya
pre o bOro
skdmmin
:
B^sh^lla rashai apasli o
l(iste
Vilrtem m^ndi sdr apre ()tchdra6
Awer kek Otchamci m^n
avella.
F.NGLISH-GIPSY SONGS.
" Sal" SOS cbingerdo, sarkrui sos tuguo
63
Sar amandi gliiom adr6m sar lajno,

Sig sa mdndi
hadem mOro habben,

avdlla.
Awer kek Otchdm^ men

" 'Pr6 tasfda
shundom
Irdci
pendas,
K^das
les ta kair paidss
o niengi,
Te kamava
la sa boro-buti,
Man
tfcvdl
nai
kam
ta
mukkov'
lati si
lati.
" Ldtcbedem.
Pandas
atukno,
Pandas yoi
te v6l ta
rumma mandy,
Te o paslmo
chirus yoi avella
Kdti rummaben, te sTg te tdcho.

"
Awer pcudoin
Sa
si
sT
cliikno bavol
Pr6 o dromya; sa
I)re o dueyav,
londo paiuii
sovahal'lis,
mdndy
K(;kker
men
tevcil te
rummer
tiite.
" Si sar krdo bal pre tiro slierro
Sos a s)nnakeskro
suriii kiittor,
Man
tevel kekfimi kamer tutc
Buti shunali slian tu amandy.

" Vnngustor te vel sar but! tfikey
Sa o
spiiigor lela liotcliewitclii,
Pt'jrdo saro s<')nnakc.skro covvar,
Mdndy
Java
'vr!
kun
lute vfas.
64
" Te pa dullo gudlo tu
man
kddas,
Te pa
(lulla
lavya tu penessa,
ShAnas tu sarja am^ngy mullo,
KAna mushor
*'
pen'lan tute jido.

ttite sAs
Te pa mAndy
sa wdfro,
Kedas m^ngy
dullo dushno gudlo,

'0
MAndy
hotcherov
kuslito vardo
SAvo iriAndy pendom d6l a tukey."

E,6vades.
Amen
o wAver gêror
SAvo
atclidd 'd6i to
shun a
l6ste,
Dikdom m6
a Gorgio hatchdlla,
asArla.
Te o Gorgio rov6s Putchdom

:
" Si
rakkerben, mi-rya
SAvo anner^la dullo pAnni

Tiri
yukkor
sa o tuv, te k^ssur,
Kairen tute boro wAfro tuknus 1
Awer pdndas
Pa
"
MAndy kek
pa
kessava
lo tuv, te chichi
rakker,
Idski
"
!
Awer bikdom dovo vArdo

PAtserdo.
te ynv te
si si
A'el
kek p6ssur
Tacho
SOS o lAv, te
te kdkker,
Sa o panni d6eyav
pordo,
L6la G6rgio a yijckno harra
Fon
Komalo, sar zi-jiOggAdo.
Charles G. Leland.
THE WILFUL
GIRL.
So
early on Christmas morning,

otlier
No
But
sound was there,
bells far off a-rinfrinw

silent frosty air.
Through the
So
early
on Christmas morning,
Between the daik and dawn,
When
As
I
the stars were going like pigeons.

;
the day like a liawk came on
heard a noise
in the forest,
;
The
voice of a wailing )nan
And
then a rustling, crackling,

fire
As though a
I
began.
hurried to the Inirning,
And
there upon a rock,
Beside his blazing waggon.

Sat the fiipsy Vestcr Lock.
66
ENGLISH- GIFS Y SONGS.

" Oh, have you buried your father
?
And,
like a
liommany
his
true,
Are you burning up
waggon,
1
As the
"
real old
Rommanis do
Or
is it
your good old mother,
Who
She
looked in so
many
hand
will
read no more the future
Since she's gone to the future laud."
"
My
father
is still
in
is
London,
here," said he.
And my mother
" This is
burnt for a
girl
who
is living,
But dead
"
for ever to me.
And whether
Or
live
she walk the South or West,
by East or North,
girl is in
That wicked
her grave
forth.
To me from
" Last
this
day
week we were
to marry,
;
With
a dinner and a ball
And
our liommany rye

it
you know him

all
!
Got
"
ready, and paid for
The
rye
was on the was
sofa,
;
The
priest
in his chair
We
waited for Otchamci,

there.
But Otchame was not
ENGLISH- GIPS Y
" So
it all
S OxVGS.
6/
l)roke
all
up in sorrow,
off in
till
And we
went
shame,
(Though we
staj-ed
dinner was over),
Otchame never came.

"
And
heard that she said she did

I
it
Because
loved her so,
That
I
for twice the trick

let
and trouble
never would
her go.
"
We
met, and she said she was sorry,

I still
That
should be her
roni,
And
the next time to the wedding

really he sure to
She would
"
come
But
I said: ^\'hile there's dust
on the highway.
And
There
water
is
in the sea,
will never he a
wedding
In the world lietween you and me.

"
It"
every hair of your ringlets

a spangle of shining gold,
Was
I
never would ask to marry
maiden so
had
a.s
Ijad
and
l)(;ld.
" If y(u
many
fingrrs
to
As a hedgehog has pins
show,
And
all willi
rings close crowded,

I'd go.
Whenever you came
68
"
ENGLISH- GIPS Y SONGS.
And because you have been so And served me sucli a turn,

waggon
I
cruel,
I've a
meant
to give you,
I'll
And
n(jw that
waggon
tlie
burn."
He
I
wept, and
among
people
Who
And
had stayed
to hear
lum through,
saw a Gentile standing,

the Gentile was weeping too.
And
asked him, " Is
it
the story
?
Which
That so
causes the tears to rise

of
tlie
Or the smoke
burning waggon
"
?
affects
your eyes
He answered, " I'm not affected By the smoke nor by what he

Cut
I
said
sold
I
him
that
waggon on
credit,
And
know
I shall
never be paid."
No more
he wasn't, and never,

is
While water
in the sea,
Will he ever get a copper
From
the heart-broken
Eommany.
G. Leland.
all
Charles
English Gipsies not only frequently burn or destroy

that belonged to their dead relations, but sometimes,
when
urged by strong emotions,
make
sacrifices like the
one de-
EA'GL/S//-G/PSY SONGS.
69
-cribed in the foregoing ballad.

to the
It is all literally true,
remark as
to the hairs of the

tlie
The only
a
liberty taken with
even head being spangles. truth has been in making
the unfortunate
man from whom
the
waggon
waj> i>urchased
weeping eye-witness. It is, however, a fact that this highly I Iiave omitted interesting sacrifice was entirely " upon tick." to state that the mortified lover also broke his watch to fragments; but,
(
Avith
lipsies,
Indians,
some of the inconsistency characteristic of and other grown-up children, he carefully

as the iron portions
uUected and sold the fragments, as well
ROMMANESTO KELLOBEN.
Pash-A-SHEL
Pash-a-sh6l
keesis,
o'
o'
kalo
kalo
E6mmanis
iu kushto dickin heesis,

in
Rommanis with wongur
their
A-w6llin saro kdtteni and p6nnin sarishAn
Pash
o'
lendy Beshaldys and pash o lendy Petu](^ngros,
Tachodiro kalo Rommanis and fino kÛom Ingres,
wc'llin 'dre
the gav to
lei
a k6llam6sto tan.
Butidosta G6rgio mushor kraned ta dickaA'it adovo,
Ynl ddled the kalo-rati foki sar o l^ndy's l6vo,
Te the chAlor mukked the G6rgio mushor hav adre

the k6r.
The
n'lklis
sos a k6llin, a savvyin
and a
glllin,
The
puri dye a sh6llin,

!
and the b6shermengro

rati
killin
Oh
to dick a
lis
waver
sim ad6vo m'an'y'd mer.
The habben
Te
sos kushto te o pTopen sos tatto,
prdler bitti chlrus sar the chdls
and chais
sos matto,
An' the
j)aiass sos the kushtidlrest tfite 'd ever dick,
Siggadiro killed the t^nis, sigger killed the bosherm^ngro,

Till the Beshaliiy-sherengro
willed atut the Petul6ngro,
An' yuv an' Usters chai sos wussed alAy opre the chick.
ENGLISH- GIPS Y
SO.VGS.
PSl 'ad6vo SOS a chingari ap6sh adovo dui,
Te the Petuldngro kured the BeshaMy opre the
mfii
Te
the dui niklis tAdered yek-a-wfiver by the bal.

to hatch opre their
Te the waver mushor prdstered up

pAlor,
Te milled opr^ a-kurin
sor the chior
and the
chdlor, to kfir an'
Te they mukked the bosh and kolloben

s^vahal.
Oh,
'd(')i
SOS sh<-rro3 poggado, te rink'ni krdi yakkor,
Te
lullo
mol a
W(5llin
out
o'
kali
chAvvos nakkor,
sfir
Te the curror and
the chauros wussin

an'
adre
tlic liav.
Te the Gorgio ryes

meriben,
ranis
prasterellan
tor
tlicir
Tf the
riltfully
chok<ingros welled to
lell
us
sfir
to stari-
ben,
Tute
sasti
pen the beng sos
jallin loosus in the g;lv.
Te
kaiia
leii .sos
kinlo, iq) the Petuldngro prasters,
Te chiva
his dfii wasts adri; thiIcsters
waver geero's wasters,

tlicy kaircil
lis
Te cliumers
oprci
ch;iniyor sa
snr
Te they
Ijitchercd for
some
livciior an'
<li'll<'d
it
to (Im-
bfilor,
Te
piid te
kuHed
againiis
till tiie
wellin
o'
the salor.
al.iv.
Then they
pelt opre the puvus, an' they sovclan
ENGLISH-GIPS Y SONGS.
dovo's savo
Now
mandy pens
a kushto sort
o'
c6vva,
:
For we'd
Itivina te paiass an'

yrJdj;or,
we
kaired adosta lovo

!
An' as for krdor
dovo's rinkeno aja

it
For the chingeri

An'
I
sos bltti, but the pdiass

bitti Ion
was buro,
;
pens ad6vo sims a

if tute'll dell
opre the moro
An'
a kelloben I'm
kammobeu
E. H.
to ja
Palmer.
THE GIPSY BALL.
Fifty dusky Eommanis dressed so

Fifty
fine
and grand,
sir
dusky Itommanis with money
at
command,
sir,
all.
A-meetin' and a-greetin' in the village one and
Half
o'
them was Smith and

Stanley,
t'other half of 'cm
was
Gipsies out
and
out,
and dancers elegant and manly,

to hire a place to give a ball.
Comin'
Lots
o'
in the
town
Gorgio people longed to see a sight so funny,

all
So they gave the dark-faced Gipsies pretty nearly

their
money
And
the
Rommanis they
inside.
let
the Gorgio gentry
come
Tile girls they
was a
daiicin'
and a
laiighin'
and a hum-
min'.
The grandmoth(;rs a
strummin'
chaflin',
and
\\w,
nui.sic
hand
Oh
to see another such a night as that

died.
would
iia'
74
ENGUSH-GIPSY SONGS.
victuals
The
they was
very
first-rate,
and the drink was
first-rate,
And
'twasn't very long afore
the boys and girls got
merry
And
Faster
the sport
it
was the best you ever
see, sir, I'll
be bound.
danced
faster,
the
ladies,
and
the
fiddler
fiddled
Till the captain of the Stanleys
and the Smiths' head
man and master Bumped one agin the

the ground.
other and was thrown upon
And
then there was a shindy very quickly in the place,

sir,
The Smith he gave the Stanley such a oner

sir,
in the face,
And
their partners took to tearing one another
by
the hair.
Then the men of both the

his brother,
parties
came up each
to help
And
the lads and lasses fought and
all
got mixed with
one another.
And
they
fight
left
the dance and music and began to
and swear.
EA'GL/SH-GIPSY SONGS.
75
Oh
tlie
broken heads and

sir, it
Ijlack eyes
which they
got,
was
stunnin',
And
the claret
from their noses pretty freely was a
mnnin',
An' the pewters and the platters was a
tiyin'
hy
your
face.
The
Gorgios
arisen,
ran
away
Avhen
the
row
had
first
An'
tlie
bobbies they came runnin' up to take us

prison
all
to
You'd ha' said the very deuce was broken loose

about the place.
When
they
all
was
tired
o' fightin',
the Smith hr iuad<-
a stand,
.\nd he com<'
\\\)
sir,
to the
sir,
otli<'i-
chap and slionk him by
the liand, .Vnd kissed
him on the
ciicck
and made
it
wy
fiT
evermore.
Thfii they sent and b-tched
giv(; it to
some more
beer,
and tiny
the Ifnnners.
daiice(l
And
tliey
drank and
again, until
the mcrnin'
broke, like oner,

.\n<l
then
tlu-y all fell
down and went
to sleep
uimn
the floor.
^6
that's
Now
what
should
call
a werry pleasant sort
o'
party,
For we'd beer, and made some money, and enjoyed ourselves quite hearty.
And
as for Ijlack eyes,
why
black eyes are prett}- as
you know
For the row was only

sir,
little,
and the fun was Averry
great,
Just like a pinch

sir.
o'
salt
upon your bread,
I calculate,
And
if you'll
give another ball, Avhy I
am game
to go.
E. H.
Palmer.
eye-witness.
This description of a ball was given to Professor Palmer by an The dance in question was held at Aberystwitli.
late years Gipsies often give these balls,
Of
charging a price
for admission.
They
are, in reality,
Gipsy exhibitions.
A TJ Clio COVVABEN;
OR, O
ROMMANI
BENG.
On, tube
jins mTro kuko, rye,

;
Oh, tute jins lester nAv
Yeck divvus yuv pTrdas

Foil yeck
'eti
siir
Idstcr
gry
Avaver
giiv.
Yuv
jdssed adrd a kitcliema

pT a
t.is
To
But o
levinor
pfiro
gry
Icllas cliTcliI to
li;T
But
o wafio cliAr tuller o
lior.
But' luviiior kairs a mu.sli surrelo,
An' mi kako
gillied sar 'sar,
Awer
Te
lester
sfi
gry sos bockelo,
yiiv ])inTed slifiKdr.
Penned
o Jioni, " Jvaii' a

givella kuslito
ajfi,
niu.sli lela
adiista nuls,
Yuv
To
Tu'd
Icilldas
tute a bitti kiss,

siran,
iilrri
ml
bii
78
ENGLISH- G/PS Y SONGS.

"
Dov
bor,
6 lo, niiro gry,
d6v
6 lo
'Driu puv, 'pr6 o waver rikk

si
a boro kAssengro,
to dick."
Te kekker adoi
Akovalo
Rom jas
mishto
aja,
To
hocker adrin o puv

n4sti jiuav a
Yuv
waver mush
Chidas lester yakkor 'pr^ yuv.
A tano,
bongo, kalo dial

tAller o
Sos beshiu
kosh
Miro kako pendas yuv kekker

S'
jin's
a wAfro-dickeno mush.
Ml kako SOS gillyin " Kushto bak Awer sTg yuv tuldas cbib,
For
pfiro
"
I
chavo horkerud aprc,

:
An' shelled in Romniani jib

"
Beng
So
's
tdsser tute, tu wdfro chAl
tute kairin
kenna
Man
bltcherav' tut' to stdripen,

aja."
For chorin ml k4ss
Mi pooro kako
sos trdsheno
Yuv
Dordi
!
pukkeras
" So-sT
lis
o l)engis own
kokero,
!
'S a-rakkerin
Kommanis
ENGLfSfJ-G/PSY SONGS.
Tacho, mi rva, yuv ndsti hatch
79
A-pukkerin
Sririshaii,
Awer
Till
hutered apre au' kistered avri,
yuv lAtched o Rommani

:
tkn.
Te
adui yuv peiidas
" Deari pals
Kdna
Dick
tute jasa to chore,
firstus if
Rommani beug
hor
"
!
Kek
beshela taller
Janet Tuckey.
A HEAL INCIDENT.
I'm thinking you
know my
his
uncle,
I'll
sir,
And you know

The other day
name,
be bound.
his horse
and he
Were
travelling the country round.
My
uncle Avent to a public-house,

there he got beer enough
to eat
And
But
But the poor old horse had nothing

nettles
and such
like
stuff.
Oh, beer
is
the thing to cheer one's heart.

;
So
my
uncle whistled a song
But the poor old horse had

So,
little to eat,
he went but slowly along.
Said the man, "
When a man has
enough
o'
meat,
He whistles aloud for joy, And if you'd a mouthful of hay

You'd go
faster than
this,
to eat,
my
boy

'
Wliat
is
that,
my
horse
oh,
what
is
that
On
the other side of the way,

it,
!
"With never a soul a watching
There's a beautiful stack of hay
So
this
my
Gipsy
loses
no time
stile
;
A jumping over
He
the
didn't guess there
was somebody
the while.
A A
watching him
all
little,
crooked, yellow-faced
man
Was
sitting
beneath a tree
My
My
uncle told
me
he'd ne'er beheld

he.
Such an ugly fellow as

uncle was singing "
let
Good
luck,
good luck
'
!
But he soon
singing alone,
at him,
For the man jumped up and hollered

In
Kommany
like his
own
" Deil take you, mischievous good-for-nought
That game you are

I'll
at won't [tay
get you a month, and no mistake,

tlicre
For stealing of that
hay
"
!
My
uncle was frightened out of his wits,

cried, "
Ho
What
is
is it I
see?
That ugly chap
the dcil's
own
"
!
self
swearing in liommany
Si
You may
take your oath that he didn't stop

of,
A
But
saying
lie
How
do you do
jumped on
his horse
and galloped
like
mad,
Till
he got to some tents he knew.

said, "
And
he
My
lads,
when
from
you're going to steal,
Take
this bit of advice

first if
me
deil
"
!
Just find out
some Gipsy
Ain't watching you under a tree
Janet Tuckkv.
The
which
iucideiit related in this ballad is given,
with the exin
ception of
it
rhyme and metre,
in almost the
same words
was told. It should be mentioned, however, that the old Gipsy who contemplated stealing the hay, invariably denies that anything of the kind ever took place. But as his Rommany friends are fond of " chaffing" him about the " Gipsy devil," and as he himself will sometimes, with a grave face, In insist that he never heard the story, it is probably true. Ilommany one negative is generally equivalent to an atfirmative.
RdMMANI
CHtRICLO.
ROMMANI chiriclo 'pr6 o rukk, Shunalo Rommani chiriclo pukk

Givelliii kushto, givellin sar,
Wavero
chiriclo tiillera bur.
" Pal, so's tiite dickdo
kciiiifi,
?
Te
tQ ghivdssa sa kushto aja
" Tallero
rukk kAi mandy shoni
Rinkeiii rani rovuU' adnJni.
" Laki
si
kekeiii iiirr/ni)
si
Churedir
tonna chiriclo
zi,
Si bOro tug' adrii laki
Kcirela pduni ndshcr avri.
"
Awer,
tnlpal,
ycck
luT
Ion
akiii.
:
Tulla Avaver rfikk bcshclla ryo

Yiiv te del
l)ri.sh
o' yilvs wtnigiir adiVim

liiiiis
Te
vel 'dillla n'likiMii
roni."
84
" Oh, mlro pal, sos tdchenus
Kairav
dui k6ttenus
Yeck
"
pirrfni te yeck pTriyno

sa,
"
!
Awer
6sti tute
kairavit so
" Besh^lla rani 'dr6 boro tuv
Lakis paiio dikklo's apr^ o ptiv
Chorava
lis,
te miikker' avri,
Ta
"
lei lis
avella prdi ml.
Te
vel pdller(^lla
mAn
lis
ap' an' alAy,
Awer kekera dava

Te sikkerava
"
apre
Talla lifipperava la fon akdi,

la ruzlo rye.
Te
kuslito asa o mTli rye,

sa tAclio
i
TVel rakker
giidli chi
Awer kamescri
te ka,mescr6
Ndstis jin sos kcrdo o chiriclo."
Chakles G. L eland.
THE
GIPSY-BIRD.
The And
Gipsy-bird
talks to his
sits
on the oak-branch high,

;
mate on the hedge hard by
He's singing loudly, he's singing well
Hear what the Gipsy-bird has

His mate
says, "
to
tell.
What
is
the matter, dear,
That you sing

"
I sing,
so loud, that
you sing so
clear
because under this very bough,

is
beautiful lady
resting now.
" She's all
by
herself,
no inate has she.

so poor can be
grief,
I
No
For
bird in the
is
wood
Her heart
I
heavy with
know,
am
watching her tears
tiiat llnw.
"But
listen,
sits
a mile from here
.see
youth
un<ler another tree

liis
He'd give the half of
gold ami I.ukI
To win
such a beautiful ladv's hand."
86
ENGLISH-GfPSY SONGS.
" Little wife,
it
were a good deed, in truth,

together, the
to
To bring them
maid and youth

"
!
And
of the
two
make but one
"Pleasant to do,
"
if it
could be done."
Look
doAvn, little wife
on the grass below
Is the lady's handkerchief white as

I'll
snow
hasten to steal
it,
and on
it
my
track
She'll surely follow, to get
back.
"
And
I'll
lead her on over brier and fern

I'll
I'll
never stop and

let
never turn,
all
Nor
her linger through
the chase,
face.
Till she
and the youth
shall
be face to
"
Then never again

he'll
will she
weep
alone.
For
woo her
softly to
be his own,
softer word.
And
she'll
answer him back with a

will
But they never
know
it
was done by the
bird."
Janet Tuckey.
The
Gipsy-bird, or Water-wagtail, can hardly be correctly
spoken of as singing.
Gip.sies regard it as
But both in Germany and England,

it.
belonging peculiarly to them, and attach
strange superstitions to
Thus they
believe that
it
portends
it
lie
the presence of Gipsies, and whenever a traveller sees

will
meet with the

is
Eommany not long
after.
The Kipsi Kdsht,
or willow,
the Gipsy-tree.
bAllovas
an
yoras.
BaLLOVAS an
yoras,
Bdllovas an yoras,
An
the rye
an
the
rani
plrryin dp the dram.
If tutes
mandys
pirryni,
If tute's miri pTrrynT,
Te
well tu
iii;'ui<ly'.s
pTrryiii,
Tlicn
in.'indy'll
be your Rom.
Mdiidy latched a
hotcliewitclii,
A A trdlo
boro hotchewltchi
hotchewltcbi,
A jrdlin
kusbto rye
Mru the wesb.
'Doi welld6 rye te rani,

te rani,
An'
adoi,
'tnll
the rfikkor
Mdndy
dicked tbc
dfii besli.
88

Yul kekn'ai
jind(i
mdndy,
m.-indy,
Yul kekn'ai p^nd'te

Yul ndsti
sliand(3 inAiidy
Dikdom
If
sar o l6ndy kaired
they jlnned I dicked the chumors

bitti
The kushti
chumors
shuned the chumors
If they'd jinned I
Oh
the rrmi would a-mered.

ain't a-hockerin,
Oh, hdtchin
An' An'
gillyin ain't rrdtkerin,

gillyin ain't pfdvkerin,
Penava mAn
asa.
So leUv ak6vo kunjernes,

Itikkava
lis
sar kunjernes,
Ilikkav' akovo kunjernes^r
Sa tu shundssa
k'na.
Charles
G. Lelanu.
EGGS AND BACON.
Oh
tlie
eggs and bacon
And And
And And And
oh
the eggs and bacon
the gentleman and lady
A
if
if
if
walking up the way
you
you
will be will
])e
you
will be
my sweetheart, my sweetheart, my darling,
I will
be your own, to-day.
Oh
Oil
found a jolly hedgehog

found a good
fat hcilgcOiog
Oh
found a good big hedgehog,
In the
wood
beyon<l the town

lord and lady,
And
there
came the
The handsome
lord an<l lady.
Ami umlerneath
1
the branches
sit
saw the two
down.
90
They
didn't
know
the Gipsy,
They
They
didn't think the Gipsy,
didn't hear the Gipsy
Was
If they
looking
I
or could hide.
kisses. kisses.
!
knew
saw the
The pretty
If
little kisses,
they knew
heard the
Oh, the lady would ha' died
Oh And
!
sitting
still's
not springing.
talking isn't singing,
So
I tell
you nothing,
singing,
That's the
I
way
make
it
square.
So
I
keep
this thing a secret,
keep
it all 'a secret,
very sacred secret,
As
all
of you can hear.
Charles G. Leland.
part of this trifling song

to
is
of
Gipsy
origin,
and well
known
most
"travellers."
The remainder was composed
one day in a tent on the banks of the Thames, with the help of several Gipsies, who greatly admired the rhymes, especially those contributed by themselves. Nothing can be said for it,
except that
it
gives a tolerably correct idea of the style of

singing.
much Rommany
MANSHA TU!
Mi ghiom
a-plrraben 'pre o drom,
Shfindom a kalo-rattdscro Rom,

\\\v gillides kushto,
yuv
glll'des aja-
" SossT maiidy to kair kenna'?
Mdnslia
tu, pal,
mAnsha
tu
O
"
bak avella
tasala.
Miro bltto wArdo
si
hutchado
Li'sos sa buti rinkeno
'Pr6
mlnno
lAv,
ml R6mmani
lAv,
K^k
sa kfislito adrln o gav.
Manslia
tu, pal,
mdnslia tu
O
" 'Drd
A(l(')VO
\
bak
()
avella tasala.
ratti li'sos liutcliado

!
dud SOS rinkeno
bitti rliingaror
nird<kered avrl,
F\.6ti
Miduvelus-tem aprd.
Manslia
tu, pal, nianslia
tti
bak avella
tasala."
92
" So-sl tu givellin, mlro
Si wAfro covva,
paH
cliAl
ml krdo
Sos
"
man
te vel tute, rovav' o'
dush!
Aver
tute shAn
k6k R6mmani mush
MAnsha
bak
" Soski
tu, pal,
mAnsha
tu
avt^lla tasala.
Eommani
myla,
ch4l to riiv
Y^ckorus, 'drln o giv^scro puv,
Mi chordom
Mdnsha
mjla m^red
1
Pukkeras tute so mdndy kaired

tu, pal,
mAnsha
tu
O
"
bak avella
dickdas
tasiila.
riini
i
mdndy b^sh
:
Pash
'
mfdlo myla adrin o w^sh

pal
sT
Yuvs
muUo', pandas adrom
'
choro, pduvero, kalo
Rom
Mclnsba
tu, pal,
mdnsha
tu
bak
av6lla tasala.
" Y6i sos a gudli, bdrveli chi
DAs m6ngy l6vva
to kin a gry
aja,
Aver mi ch6rdom a gry
Te kindom wardo
MAnsba
bak avdlla
kun's ndshered kenna.
tu, pal,
mdnsha tu
tasala.
" Tdller o bor beshav' sliukAr,
Givellin kushto sarasar,
93
Te miro
gry, oh, kai
sT
yuv
Chorin lescro liabbeii adrin o puv

Maiisha
tu, pal,
mansha
tu
bak
" Givfiva
avella tasala.
maiidy adrum, mi rye,

avell' akAi,
si
gudlo covva
For kushto bak
Ucho
pal
Keti mlshto, ruzno Iiommani chAl.
Mansha
tu, pal, mi'insha tu
bale avella tasala."
Janet Tuckey
CHEER UP
Along
the road I was wandering,

I
When
"
heard a brown-faced Gipsy sing
Oh
dear,
my
drag
is
burnt and gone

%
Who
can
tell
me
what's to be done
Cheer up, brother, never sorrow
Luck
will
come again to-morrow.

up and down,
" Search everywhere, search
You'll find none better in all the
town
Upon my
word,
my Eommany
fit
word.
That waggon of mine was
for a lord.
!
Luck
'
will
'Twas burnt up only yesternight

fire
You've never seen a
so bright
The sparks flew out, flew up so high.

They
didn't stop
till
they touched the

!
sk}'.
Luck
will
come again to-morrow."
Said
I,
95
" Your story
is full
of woe,
Then why do you smg,

If I
I'd like to
know
"
were you,
sir,
I couldn't
be glad
lad.
!
" But,
you're not a
Kommany
Luck
"
will

?
Why
should a merry Gipsy weep
Once,
when
an
the farmer was fast asleep,
I stole
I
ass,
but soon she died
sat
me
dcjwn by that donkey's side.

!
Luck
"
will
Gorgio lady came through the wood,

rich
The Gorgio lady was

She
looke<l at
and good.
;
my
donkey, she looked at nnis
'Oh, the Gipsy's friend
dead,' said she.

!
Luck
will

a purse, a beautiful piurse,
;
"She gave me
Lots of mon(!y to )>uy a horse

I'ut
I
stole a liorse, as I well
km-w how.
burnt up iiow
!
Ami bought
Luck
the
waggon
tlial's
Cheer up, brother, never son-ow

will
96
"
Under
the hedge at
my
ease
I'll
stay,
Singing so jolly the livelong day.
My
horse
is
Rommany,
just like me,

see.
!
He's stealing the farmer's oats, you
Luck
will
" If you care for nothing, you needn't doubt
But luck For

jolly
will
come by and
will find
you out
see,
good luck, as you well may
Is a friend to the regular
Rommany.
Cheer up, brother, never sorrow,
Luck
will
come again to-morrow."
Janet Tuckey.
The
incident here described
is
substantially the
same
as one
narrated by an old Gipsy in Surrey as having occurred to

liiinself.
In justice to the old man,

is
it
should be admitted that
the theft of the donkey and horse
a poetic fiction.
BOCKELO GILLL
Yeck
mani
aprc
a tan
dlvvus pirdum
me
trin-desh
meeya
sar
mlro
puro Pirengro, pari

kair<jngror
chumbor
adr6
bitti
te hdvya,
dickin
E6m-
g^vya,
ora
ndckerin
puri
chiruses.
Kennadoi yuv sikkerdas m(ingy

a
adru o
char, kai
Gorgio
te
well
dick chi-
chi, ilwer
odoi yuv sikkerdas

alay, sasti
mengy
sikko, kai yuv's
pal o
kako beshede
beshya kenna.
Sa mendui
ghiom pash 'Ginny Pdnni,

te Staines, kai a
te pari o Stans Chumbei',
waver kushto pdl o mdndy kairdas a
boro kuraben apre ye prasterin o 'ye grya, te so vioni

an k6ni, kcti niTro Boro Kitchema,
'pre
nAwo
Giv-Puvior,
Borgav, te yuv rlkkerdas mlro chukko.

pirressa,
Awer
.sa
sig
mendui
ghiom amande agal
buti kusi kitche-
mor, talla jfdlin

bar, sa
adr(i, for
mlro chukko boricd paslicr a

kanidas
dennc miro
o
levinor.
rikkcrin-mu.sh
kcnnadci
o' tlic
cutter
Kennasig apru
ta
yo nak
niizzcr
to
liivvu.-^, lis
miro puro pdl aiikairdas
mujtr
o'
adr6 Icster shorro, te
mdndy IcUcdum
Te
sa
drum
dellin lescro a pash kordnna.
yuv
so6 a kcllin
98
an ludderin
lestis
kokero apr6 the drom, givelldas yuv
adre a buti paiAscro shunaben akovo givelli

" Mdndy's clidvvis shau bokelo
okelokokelo.
lllaben.
hlllaben obbin abobbin Yul chuvveni piivveni huvveny Shan pauveri, chlngerdo hingerdo blngerdo Man'ys bitto tan St sar in cutter-6ngerees mingerees ye h6vyor sh6vyor, bdvol puderla
Shan muUerin
o'
shillaben
lena lek habben

te
si
fingerees.
shillo
'dr(3
SarrAti
Sdrrati
mdndy shunova
ye wafo bavo bdvcla.

for
;
mendui ruvv, m6rin
muro pr6 the puv.
Man'j's chdvvis got kek dye
high de dy, dy dy
Diddle
dum dum.
die
if
Mandy'd
Diddle
'twasn't for mlro kushto rye
dum dum, dum dum,

dam dum.
Diddle, dim
Mdndy's a churedo
hurredo kurredo.
"
!
High Te
sa
diddle diddle
mendui viom
keti kunsus
o'
the drum, diom
m6
l6sco lesters
pash kordnna.
Te
o puro
mush kairedas
kin, te ghias k6rri, sa
kumi
te
kushto sa bokro.
Charles
G. Leland.
THE SONG OF STARVATION.
One day
went
hills
thirty
miles
a-foot
with
my
oUl
Walker, across
dwellers in the
as
in
and
dales, calling
on Gipsy house-
little villages,
or talking over old times
we
went.
Now
and
tlicn lie
would point out a place
the grass where a Gorgio (white
man) could
see
nothing, but there he would

his
show me exactly where
brother or uncle had camped, perhaps years ago.

W(!
So
two
Hill,
i)a.ssed
by Virginia Water, and across Saint

Staines,
Ann's
and through
where another good
friend of
mine had a great
fight at the last races,
and
then went homeward to

A\'alton.
And
he
my hotel, called Oatlands, near iJut as we walkeil, carried my coat.

going
in, for
we passed very
{y^w jniblic-houses witliout
my
coat weighed almost a pound, and
my
ale.
carrier,
I'y
of
course,
needed now and then a drop of
and
by, towards the
cud of
tlic
day,
my
old fiicud began In

I
turn
it
over in his hcafj, and reflect that

;
had a way of
of
it,
giving him a lialf-crown
and, to remind
me
while
100
he was dancing and shaking himself on the road, he

sang, in a very jolly voice, this song
" ]\Iy children are hungry
hungrywungry, They're dying of the bitter cold diddle diddle dum. They haven't any victuals skittles They're perishing in poverty turn teedle turn tent's in tatters hatters My highin' skyin'. All in rags The cold wind a-blowin' lowin' owin', whistle diddle. hear All night
tittles.
!
little
scatters.
a-flyin'
it
sissel
All night we're a-cryin'
for a bit o'
bread
a-dyin'.
My
I
babes ha' got no mother
nor father nother.
Certainly I should die, but for ray master standing by.
am
poor
boor oor damdum.

diddle." to the
Diddle
Diddle,
dum dum, dum dum,

dim
High diddle
And when we came

road,
end (corner) of the road,
gave him his half-crown.
So the old fellow got
off the
and went home
as quiet
and good
as a lamb.
Charles
G. Leland.
TACHIPEN AND WAFODIPEN.
Man
dickdum a Rommany
leste " Sarishan
'dr6 tho
"
%
t:'in,
Te pendum
Yiiv sdvvdas
amAndy and
si
sli(5lled avri,
" Avali, pala, kushto
Shorn matto sa
I clulvvi
l)uti
f
a rye sliould be."
kairdas the yag opr6,
tuvus welldas the tan adre,

" Oh, hcngis the ratfully tuvis
zi
!
w6llin adre
mi yakk
"
pens
lie,
Sa matto
sa buti a rye could

avrl he wells
liis
Ix;,
Out of the tan
The b6sh
an' the kiVslit in
vast he
lolls
Te
'pr6 the char beshdlla he,
Oillin adroni in
Kommany,
Sa matto
sa buti a rye should be.
The gurgiky milshor
welled an to dick
Beshellan Icndy opru the chick,
102
ENGUSH-GIPSY SONGS.
Ta shun
" Dordi
!
lis gill
ache
Rommany
"Mister Lee,
" pencjllan,
Si matto sa buti a rye can be."

Leiskri chAvvi sos liAtchin adoi
Shiin^lla givelli, rov^lla yoi,
"
Ma
mukklis
giller
" yoi shells avri,
" A-sikkerin Gorgios
Rommany
Sa miitto sa buti a mush can be."
P^ndom
Te
a hiv 'drin lister's kAn,
lulled the
Eommany Wrd
!
the tan
" D6rdi's a kalor
bitcher avri
For a
ciirro livenor
mukkelas
rjês
pi,
Till am^ndi's
matto as
should be."
The
wriver kurikus a rashd,i
Sar a kalo rudaben vias akAi,
Te pandas
" Lessa kek sig ta pT."

'si
Pens man'y, " Adovo
hockeny
"
!
Tute kok'ro's matto as yeck can be

I kfims to dickavit
Eommany
chals
:
Gillin te killin sar Idndy's pAls
But
pens as
ac(')Vvo si wAflfodi
si,
To rakker
If a miish
the jib kai G6rgios

is
as
matto as yuv can
be.
E. H.
Palmer.
GIPSY MORALS.
A
"
Gipsy lad
in his tent did lie
How
do ye do,
my
boy
" said
I.
He
laughs outright, and says, says he,

is
" Things
a-goin' all right with
me,
"
!
I'm drunk as a gentleman need to be
The
girl
she gave the
fire
a poke
Into the tent came clouds of smoke

" Bother
it
!
can hardly see,

into
The smoke has got

As drunk
Out of the
as a
my
eyes," says he,

be.
gentleman need to
tent he bundles quick.
And takes the fiddle and fiddlestick Down on the grass outside sits he.
Singing away in liommany
As drunk
The
as a gentleman need to be.
Clorgios,
whon they heard
the sound,
(Janie
nnining up, and crowded round

sing in lioramanj',
To hear him
104
r.NGLISU-GIPSY SONGS.
Crying, " Oh, look at Mister Lee,
Drunk
as a
gentleman need to be
"
!
The Gipsy's daughter was standing

And, hearing him
"
sing,
by,
began to cry
Oh
stop his singin'," she says, says she,
" A-teachin' of Gorgios
As drunk
I
as ever a
Eommany man can be."

in his ear,
went and whispered
Took him
Says
I,
inside to have
some beer
" I've got a shillin', see
Send
for a gallon,
till
and you and me
Will drink
I
we're drunk as gents should be."

t'other week,
saw a clergyman
A
"
black-coat fellow with lots of cheek
You
I,
oughtn't to drink no beer," said he

" You're a-tellin' a
lie
Says
to
me.
can be."
You're as drunk yourself as a

I loves to see a
man
Gipsy lad
A-singin' and playin'
away
like
mad
me,
But
this is
what seems a
sin to
To
If a
talk afore Gorgios in
liommany,
man
is
as
drunk
as a
man
can be.
E. H.
Palmer.
is
The above scene was witnessed by

exactly described in the ballad.
Prof.
Palmer, and
KAIRIN KAMMOBEN.
{Adre
puro
chinis.)
PURI dye
si jillo
Ke
'duvo g:lv kenna
puro dad' beshella
Adrin o kitcheraa
Kek mush
K(!k
clii
'dre sar o tdnya,
to
pukk a
lav
Mi
shorn akdi, akonyo

!
Av, miro kamlo, av

Dordi, sossi
mandy kainn
yag
pa
?
Push o
lullo
Buti, buti, sar
tute,
!
Tuki-y kushto bak
Mi
<h'ikk('rdmii
'd(')Vo
laiii
:
'Die
bnro ker
Kek
krdi choviliaiii
lis
Vel kair
kushtider.
I06
INIan
pukkdom'
rink'ni c6vva,
:
A
Y(')i
bArv'lo rye, te sa
das a-mengy Iowa,

aja.
Mi pordowast
Oh, mi
susti rakker,
dukker
Gorgios adr6m,
Buti, buti, sar
pa tute
!
Miro kamlo rom
Oh, R6mmanis shan j6nger
Mi
shorn kek dlnneli chi

o W('>ngur,
kai.
Mi gdverdum
Te kek'no jindas
Mi kindum kushto
Iratti,
voro,
kunjerni
sT
moriclo
korro
si
!
Av, deari, tdcho
Pano
voro,
pano kWva,
'Drill a moriclo,
Buti, buti, sar
pa
tute,
!
Kamlo
Hdtch
pirrjno
prd'
bor,
mo
pali
clidvo
lis
:
HAtch pfikeno
Kenna mAn
tut'
avava,
:
Sar sig o Rommanis

Avava,
pdl, ta
O/
wusser
mor'clo 'tut o bor
Oh, tute
Asti pessur
Adusta
Idvinor.
?
Lei a chumer, del a chiimer
Avo, avail
Buti, buti,
]\IIro
sfir
pa
zl
tute,
kumlo
Janet Tuckey.
GTFSY LOVE-MAKING.
{In the old time.)
My
My
mother's gone a-wandering

to
Away
yonder town
father in the alehouse
Is safely settled
down
There's not a girl to gossip There's not a lad at
home
I'm
all
alone and waiting
So come,
Tell
my
darling,
come
me what I'm doing By the fire-light here,

all for
All for you, love,

All for luck,
true love,
my
dear.
told a lady's fortune
In that big house hard by
No
Gipsy could have done

cleverly than I
it
More
promised that she'd marry
TO9
A
She
lord with heaps of gokl

filled
my hand
with
silver,
As much
I
as I could hold.
flatter
can chatter,
Gorgios far and near,

All for you, love,
All for luck,
all for
true love,
!
my
dear
Oh, Rommanis are cunning

I
know what I'm about

out.
hid away the money,
Where no one found

I
it
bought some
I
flour last
evening
bought
it
secretly
is
Come, now the cake
ready.
And nobody
Meal
to see.
so white,
money
bright,
Baked together
here.
All for you, love, all for true love.
All for luck,
my
dear!
Wait near the hedge
awhile,
stay
lail.
Stay yet a moment,

I'm coming
now
to
meet you,
In our old Gipsy way.
lO
ENGUSH-G/PSY SONGS.
I'll
throw the cake right over,

is
Although the hedge

Go, drink to me,
high
my
1
lover.
!
Go drink the What is this
tavern dry
First a kiss
;
Plenty, never fear
All for you, love,

All for luck,
all for
true love,
!
my
dear
Janet Tuckey.
It would appear, from an account given by au old Gipsy woman, that formerly, in Rommany wooing, the more valuable gifts were made l)y the girls, possibly as a proof of their
ability to contribute to the expenses of married
life.
She
laid
especial stress'
on the
fact that the
damsels would hide as

it
much money
in a cake,
as
they could out of their earnings, and bake

usually'
which was
thrown
o\'er
the hedge to the

itself
expectant lover.
Among
such people, courtship reduces
to very simple principles.
JUKALO ROMMANIS.
Yeck Rommani
clu'il
te
a Gorgio,
Ye
puri dyeskri dye,
Pdnj chdvor, te a geero
chureno didikai
o
Awer
Te
Rom
sos ruzno,
All' br)ro
aprd the chib,
sliordas sa lestur kukero,
'S deep'dlrus 'dr6
Rummaui
jil).
dye SOS kali Romni,
Te a
bitto liuiinalo
churcdo rikkenlas
Sos kek'iiai
l)ut'
stadf,
;
surrelo
Av' o
Rommani
musli sos buno,
Te dickdas
sfirja avri
jiiiiifii
Asfirla sar milkkela
Sos gdvered 'drO
Icster
zi.
1 1
f.ncjLish-gips y songs.
churedo kairdas a kusno

O' papero, leskro
drom
Sos
chitti,
aver kenna-slg
Yiiv dlckdas o boro
Rom:
pen
Pa Mister Ayres,
sherrescro,
shcirro to
:
Kun
hdderdas
" Pukkerava
man
tdchodir Idvus
Sliundes tiro niiraben
" I'u jasa fon 'kai to Lundra,
Te I6dder Te rakker
'dr6 y^ckli
gAv
sar Anglat^rra,
jufra Idv
Te shun kekker
Si o deepodiresto pennis
Te
Si
si
adr6 E6mmani,
kek but mi-deari Duvel

Jindlla 'dull'
Idv te
mi."
puri dye dicked kalo,
Te
dias o yrdvk asa,

:
Sa buti to pen
"
Ma
pukker
!
Agal
'this
Gorgio aja
But the churedo dicked
at
mdndy
To
kair sa but' as I could,

kair
o'
Awer
chummcny
sikker
For the pdtser o G6rgio blood.
EXGLISH- GIPS Y SOXGS.

Pens
1 1
Mr
Ayres, sherr^skro,
avri his dukk,
As he mukkered
" Gurnidver^s the
lav, mi-rya,
An'
I piiri
if
tute can
pukker
it,
pukk'
sAvvyed at mdndy,
chiiweny chur'do, yuv Dicked putchin

An'
'diu niiri
yakkor,
tale apre the puv.
" GurniAver," pens Ayres, sherr^scro " GumiAver's the lAv I pen
;
You
ryas with
lils
jins buti,
But
this ain't in
your jinaben."
tale,
An' we bdshed with our sherros Bdshed pukcni

tAller o bor.
An' never rfikkerdom
chichi.
For the
l.iv
had
kfiried us sar.
Awer
Ayres, sa bOro, sos kuslito,

niili
:
Sa yuv rakkerdas
" Sir,
:
Mandy'll sikker tukey adovvo

Gurniaver's a
cowcumber
'dre lioni'iiis,
For
Giiriti's
cow
An' Av, tute
jin.s, is
come,
An' the dui kairen cow-comer,
As
sikker an mdn's a
Kom."
II
I 1
ENGLISH- GIPS Y SONGS. Then we hadered our

sherros apopli,
At
the bOro lilv6ngero,

au' sar o' the an'
An' ye dye
chAvor
shelled, "
mdn shundom mAndy a Kekker

An' the chur'do
Oh/"
gudli
Sa duro
te boro.
No.
te
Penava
te
rukkor
pdnni
:
Kedivvus shdn pukkerin
"
Oh
Charles
G. Leland.
DOG-GIPSY.
Gipsy and a
Gentile,
A A
grandmother dark and wild,
Five children, and an uncle

half-blood poor
and mild.
But the chief was bold and haughty,
And
often declared to me.

in all the country
lie.
That no man
Was
The The
so deep in their tongue as
crone, a dark old Gipsy,

to hear
Seemed angry
me
speak
half-blood sported a stove-pipe,*

I
And
But
saw that the man was
wralc.
tlio
chief looked jirouilly almiit, him.
And
To
every motion said

all
//./
the world, that

in
things worth kiiowiiii great

liea<l.
Were hidden
Stove-pipe or chiiuney-pot
a high luiL
The
half-blood
was weaving a basket
Of paper,
Mere
quietly,
trifling,
and
as
he wove
it
:
He glanced at the Rommany At Mr Ayres the captain,
Who
"
lifted his
head
to say
I'll tell
you the deepest word now
You
"
ever heard in your day.
You may go from

talk all
here to London,
is
Wherever our tongue
heard
over.
:
You may
England
And
It's
never hear sitch a word
the very deeperest tarn, Sir,

is
There
in all
Rommany
word
There's none but the Lord above us
As knows
o'
that
and me."
wiidc,
it
!
The grandmother looked angry.
And
gave him a hurried

as to say
:
As much
" Don't tell
Before these Gentiles,
think
eflfort.
But the half-breed gave me another.
To do
But
the best I could.
to certainly
make an
For the credit of English blood.
JtNGL/SN-G/PSV SONGS.
II
Said
Mr
Ayres the captain,
And
Ids voice
came
far
from below
master,
" Gumidvei^s the word,
my
And
The
if
you can explain
it
do
old woman's laugh was scornful.
The half-breed glanced around
Up
into
my
eyes, inquiring,
Then down upon the ground.

" Gurniaver," said
Ayres the captain

It's
" Gnrniaver^s the word.
true
You
gents with your books
knows something.
But
So we
this here is-ahead of you."
sat with our
heads
all
Ijowing,
;
iVnd never a sound was heard
And we
never uttered a whisper
We
were crushed by that awful word
But Ayres, though

So he
Tins
great,
was human,
said politely, "Sir,
liere is
wot
is
the nieanin'
:
Gnniidve)'^s a cow-cumbC-r
For a
;/iir/ii's
a cow in (lipsy.
is
And
And
As
dv,
you know,
of 'em
'come
"
I
;'
tlie
two
make cow-come-r.
certain as I'm a liom
I I

Then we
lifted
our heads together
To
the linguist
all
in a
row
And the grandmother and the children, And the half-blood and I, cried, " Oh /"
I never
heard an utterance
earnest.
So deep and so
I
No.
ween that the wood and water

In that dell are
still
murmuring, " Oh!"
Charles G. Leland.
This incident, for which
precisely as
it
am
indebted to a friend, occurred
is
told.
It is not
unusual for a simplestudy,
some extraordisome translation of them from Enfrlish, on the strength of which invention he patents himSometimes a Gipsy is the possessor self as deep Eommany. of one " deep " word, which he imparts only as a great favour. Jfikalo Rommanls, or Dog-Gipsy, is a term like " Dog- Latin." Thus lei, signifying to It is applied to mis-applied words. take or get, would become decidedly jukalo if one were to say " get up lei avri for " get out," or lei up 2)al'i, apre the wdrdo behind on the waggon." -^ Mandy dui" {i.e., I two), for I too,
minded Gipsy to form, nary compound of words,
after long
or
may be occasionally lieard. The Old Professor, so frequently mentioned in " The English Gipsies," on being asked the -word
ior a daisy, suggested that " ,Sprcadamengrd-adre-the-sdla-an'-
pandamengro-adre-tlie-rdtti "
literal
woidd be a very good word its meaning being "A spreading thing (or umbrella) in the morning, and a shutting-up thing at night." My friend, to whom this was said, had suggested that, for want of a better word, daisy might be literally translated divvusko yah, but the Professor would not hear of this it lacked the dignity and poetry of his own formidable epithet.
SA O
ROMMANY CHAL MUKKED

LEVINOR.
FIIN
*'
Mat, hav
Sar
'sh.^m
acai
mu
pur aja
tu kushto, puro pAl
Tu's dickin buti nAflo, ba,
Tu
chindes tiro kalo
Ijiil.
" 'Kai, pi a ciirro levinor
"
"
Kek
Kek, pals kenna
for
o'
mandy's kdired
ycck,
kurran kek to sum

Siiicti iniri
poori jfiva mdred."

"
" Mdred
sar sos \]<Wo
" M.in<ly"ll pen,
tikno, m.'lndy, yoi tc sar
Aprc a
buti shillo wiin,

t;i1ay
Sos hatched
"
Y(')i'd lulled
a br.ro bor.
a tlkno, to yo
ta
b.-'iv',
wdlin
fit
mOr a mush,
fun y gav,
Atiit yc
puv
fb'ir
Kaired miri
cliori r/ikli (h'lsb.
20

" Y6i pendas mdncly
'
Deari rom,
;
Shorn
shillo
Kair a yag apre

ye drom,
'Doi's buti k6shters 'prci
Sa ja
"
t(5
rikk a
bitt' adrd.'
Sa mdndy But
pirries kw, t6 wells

;
sTg apr^ a k6shter-stogg
A
"
bitti
kosbter 'doi I
l^ls,
To
kdir a kushtodirus yag.

'
Mi p(3ndom
Java man ad6i

Idii
Ke' 'd6vo kitchema, te
A
"
curro levinor for yoi

Y6i'll
kam
a droppi botched, I jin.'
Awer
a mtiscro 'prd a giy

Icl
Dicked m6ngy
'
ye k6sht,
lis
te
panned
Tu
kalo chor, wus'

tute'll s!g
akAi,
!
Or
"
be stdrriben'd
:
Ad6vo kaired mi hunnalo

'
So's tute
bdngis 'dr6 your

tu dlnnelo,
sig avri
!
zl
Mukk m6ngy jal,

Or
" Sa
lei
your truppo
mdndy
hiitched to kur
mi rye
But
slggerdir as tu could dick
Yuv pusimegried l6ster gry, And wussered mdndy 'dru
ye chick.
ENGLISH- G/PS V SONGS.

'
Adovo kaired
Sfi
m*^ divio, pals,

-
mdndy
lulled a cluiri 'vri,

jals,
zi.
An' as to ktcher mi yuv

1
kurs
lis
sig at lister
"
Awer
Te
yliv dolled a purabeu,

;
miri churi pelt alay
Mi
sigabeu sos buckerpen

wAsterm(ingris cliivved apru.
Ye
"
Avo
yuv
lelled
mi
keti
gAv
Ye
bitcberin-mushor sliuned ydv pen,
Kek mukked
a raAndy pen a lAv,

ta starripen.
Td bitcbered mi
" Pasb drd cbone yol imlkked
mi
j;i
Awer
yol i)enned mi at ye gav,
Mi-deari juva, tlkno
sar
ye shlUo
z\,
Had mfdlered
"
'drii
b;iv
Adovo
p<')ggercd miri
Vanka man miikk<lom

Kekumi droppi
jjasli
<>
bur
An' sensus miindy kams to

l(ivinor."
pT
I-:.
II.
I'AI.MKi:
IVI/V
THE GIPSY LEFT OFF DRINKING BEER.
"
Mat, come
here, lad, don't turn
away
How
are you, brother?
I declare
;
You're lookin' awful bad to-day
You've been and cut your long black

" Here, drink a drop
o'
hair.
beer, lad
I can't
"
"
No
No
The
thank
o'
ye, boys.
abide
sight
beer
since
now
it's
been so
With me
" Died
!
my
poor missus died."

1
How
you.
was that
I,
"
" Well, by your leave,
I'll tell
the babe, and she
Was
camping, one cold winter's eve.

little
Against a
blackthorn
tree.
" Across the open field the
wind
Came
blowin',
she,
fit
a'most to kill
man, and
but just confined.

chill.
Poor deary, took a nasty
ENGIJSII-G/PSY SONGS.
" Says she to
12$
me
'
Matthe^v,
the
fire,
my
dear,
I'm cold
make up
o'
lad,
do
There's lots
faggots close
by
here,
Just run outsitle and get a few.'

"
So
ofiF
I goes,
and on the road

;
I sees
some
nice dry faggot-ricks
And takes from one To make a better

"
little load.
fire o' sticks.
Says
'
I'll
just go over there
To yonder
public-house, and
o'
it
buy
half-a-pint
She'll like
beer for her
warmed up by and
by.'
"
mounted p'liceman from the town

seen
Had
'
me
'
take the sticks, and so
You
black
thi(,'f,
throw them faggots down,"

'
!
Says he,
"
or off to jail you go
That made
'
my
!
temper
I
far
'
from cool
Curse you
'
cried,
you've got no right
To touch me.
Or take
'
Let
me
go,
you
fool
off that there coat
and
light
Anl
I stoofj
up
to fight, of course
l)Ut quicker
than a wink, he rodo

iiis
Straight at me, ppurrin' of
horse,
And knocked me
over on the road.
24
"
ENGLISH-GIPS V SONGS.
That only made me twice
So out
I pulls
as
mad
my
pocket-knife,
lad,
life.
And
as
he come to seize me,
I struck at him, to take
lii.s
"
He gave a sudden turn I stopped, And saw at once that I had missed
chance that time
;
My
my
knife had dropped
The handcuffs were upon

" Yes, off he took
my
wrist.
me
to the jail
The beaks heard what

But wouldn't
let
he'd got to say,
And
'In
locked
me tell my tale. me u}), right straight

let
away.
two months' time they

in the village I
me go
so.
But
was
told,
My
"
babe, the wife that loved
me
Had
died that same night in the cold.
My
heart was broken by that there,

I'd lost,
For those
and loved so dear

I
o'
And now you know why

To touch another drop
don't care
beer."
E. H.
Palmer.
It should be stated in explanation of this poem that Gipsies reverence their dead by abstaining frctm some favourite food.
E^rGL/SH-G//'SY SO.VGS.
12$
amusement, or
habit.
This
is
generally connected in some
way with
will, in
the deceased.
Thus, a Gipsy having smoked a pipe
with a friend the
last time he met him, and bisfore his death, memoriam, refrain from tobacco lor several years. (See "The EngUsh Gipsies and their Language," chap. iv. Triibuer&Co., 1S73.)
KUSHTO DUKKERIN.
"
Kai
SOS tu, mlro kamlo,

rAttescri
?
Av^ssa sa
Te kai
sos tu,
mi tacho kamlo,
"
1
Tiro wongur's sar ndshered avri

"
Sh6mas 'drm o
Kai
sar
i
w6sii, miri kamli,

gill,
chiriclor
Kai o
bitti
i
rukki^ngro li6ckers,
kill.
Kai
tani kukalos
" Sos a
Sar
E6mmani dye ad6i, kali sims o wen

:
Y6i dickdas
'dr6 miri wdstor,
Te pukkcrdas dukkerben.
"
Y6i p(indas mi rummav' a

Sar safrdni bdlyor,
rani,
Sar rlnkeni
nlli
yakkor,
ruzhior."
Te chdmor sim
ENGUSH-G/PS Y SONGS.
" Miri yakkor sbdn sar
nili,
Miri balyor slidn safrdu "" Lis
mukkdas Iowa, mi
kamli,
Shuiiav tu rum^ssa m4n."
Janet Tuckey.
THE PLEASANT FORTUNE.
"
Where
have you been,
my
darling,
]
That you come so late at night
And where have you
been,
my own
love,
?
That your purse has grown
so light
" 1 have been in the forest, darling

I
have heard the wood birds
sing.
Where
the squirrel picked nuts for the winter.

the fairies had
And
"
made
a ring.
Gipsy came through the forest
She was wrinkled, brown, and old
And
To
"
she looked in
my
hand, and
slie told.
listened
the fortune that
She told me
soon should marry
A lady
A
And
with yellow hair
lady with flower-blue eyes, love.
cheeks like the wild-rose
fair."

' '
29
J/y hair
is
yellow as sunshine,
My
'
eyes are violet-blue "
Ah
wasn't
it
worth the money

I'll
To hear
that
marry you ? "
Janet Tuckey.
Shun
the hunualo
o'
the panni,
pdnni,
The hdnnalo bore

Huunalln
'Cos
it
sarasa',
can't jal anduro,

!
An' guryin aja
M.
C.
Hear
the roar of the water, great and raging sea,

on,
Of the
Raging ever
Because
it
can get no further,

all
And
roaring
alone
*
!
C. G.
* The
Rommany original
bciii;,'
of these lines
was the utterance of
a tent-Qip.sy on
asked what was his word for " roar."

it,
There
rage.
ia
a doublo lucauing iu
since hunnalo also siguilicB
MULLO BALOR.
Oh
jassed to the kdr,

I tried to
An'
mang
the baler
Tried to
mang
the mullo brdor.
When
I jassed to the k^r.
But the rani wouldn't del

For she p^nnas
les 'os
it,
drdbberd,
For she p^nnas
les 'os
drAbberd,
Pcnn's the E6mniany chdl had drubbed the

balor.
M.
C.
DEAD
PIG.
WKNT
to tlic I
farmhouse
a pig had died.
Where
knew
it
And
to get
emplored 'em
Till I pretty nearly cried.
But the lady wouldn't give
it,
And
As
she 'inted rather free
'twas pisoncd
by some Gipsy,
And
that Gipsy
man was
vie.
Charles G. Lkland.
Tliis trifle,
which
heard
buii;^
hy a CdpHy
in Bri;,'liloii, will
recall to
many
readers the ballad in
Mr
I'orrow's " ilonnnany
Rye."
their
It is said tliat poisoning; pigs for the .'iake of feeding

fle.sh is
;
on
no longer practised but I venture to jussert, with some confidence, that it is by no means one of tlie lost arts, and that a wcnkness for mnllo hftnlor, or jtork which died by " the hand of CJod" (or by disease), as the Continental f lipsics say, is certainly not one of the lost tastes, as I doubt whethtT there is a real Cjip?y, old or young, in Knglaml who has not
32

it.
eaten
This
is
a subject wliicli has, however, never Leen
really understood,
and
it is
a gross injustice to base on
it
an
indiscriminate appetite for refuse food of any kind.
No
Gipsy
would touch
horse-flesh,
and
have known one who professed
a fondness for mullo baulor, but did not like anchovy paste
and similar dainties. Thus, the Chippeway Indians, who have some eccentric fancies as to food, do not like oysters, though truth compels me to admit that one among them whom I once met went far in the opposite direction. When camping in the wilderness in 1868, at the western extremity of
Lake Superior, I sent a tin of oysters to a dozen Indians who were eating their dinner at a little distance from where I was The open canister, containing a seated with my friends. quart of the shell-fish, was gravely passed from one to the other without examination or comment, until it came to the last man, who as gravely lifted it to his mouth, and, almost without a pause, drank off the entire contents to the last oyster, and with it all the liquid. On asking some explanation of this extraordinary proceeding, I was simply told, " Him likee um oyster." There was something very Gipsy-like in the grave manner in which this was done, and I find myself continually detecting a great similarity in the Eommany saying and doing of many strange things, common to Indians, Gipsies, and
Negroes, which
it
would be extremely
difficult to
explain or
even
set forth to a " Gorgio."
very large caste or
There is a whose names, Dom and Domni, strongly suggest Rom and Eomni, who are probably in part ancestors of the European Gipsies. These Doms, who are wanderers like Gipsies, resemble them in the peculiarity of eating " dead " animals, particularly pigs. The Doms also carry out corpses, flay beasts, and exercise other functions, all of which were for centuries peculiar to the Roms in Europe, and which have remained their sjêcialty
to mullo baulor, the taste is traditional.
class of outcasts in India,
As
ENGLISH- GIPS V SONGS.

to the present generation in
33
Denmark.*
In
all
the countries
in
which they have
lived,
nothing has ever been so character-
istic
of the Roms as this fancy for rmillo banlor nothing has tended more to separate them from Gorgios in popular preju-
dice,
and there
is
nothing to which they have adhered with
greater obstinacy.
fact that
One reason
is
for this is unquestionably the
mullo baulor
extremely agreeable to Gipsy palates.
I have never eaten it myself, but I have eaten hedgehog, which is really very nice, being tender, with a flavour like pheasant and Gipsies have assured me that it is precisely
;
and hardly to be distinguished from it. Another Rommany excuse for such food is that it is wholesome, and tliat no one was ever yet made ill by eating it, which is certainly more than can be said of the best of
like mullo baulor,
game with a haut

that mullo baulor,
gout.
It
is,
however, more than probable

evil effect
is
who
ing,
lives in
which produces no the open air, and who
on a Gipsy,
All
tastes
constantly exercis-
would
half- poison a kerengro, or house- dweller.
Gipsies
who have
eaten mullo baulor persist that

;
it
better than
any other food whatever
and
am
quite con-
vinced that they feel a certain pride in being emancipated
from a prejudice to which "Gorgios" are enslaved. I have very little doubt that the legends of ghouls, whicli are simply the supernatural form of the Aghora (or Ogre) sect in India, sprung from the extravagant emancipation from all "prejudice" which was developed by advanced thinkers among
and it is not entirely impossible that botli Western cynicism have their origin in this Oriental source. It may yet be found that the orthodox Oriental prohibition of pork as food involved more than is now known, and that it was truly a jnice de resistance between
sages
;
Hindu
Eastern and
Vide Tatorc og Natniandafolk Kopeiihagen, F. Ilcgel, 1872.
Danmurk.
Af
F. Kyrliiml.
34
ENGLISH- GIFS Y SONGS.

ultra -emancipationists of
so
to
the
early
ages
and
so
tlie
"Conif
servatives,"
speak.
Christianity,
progressive in
many respects, may judge by

that,
avoided this degree of

the
significant
Radicalism,
we
of
miracle of the driving

It
is
the herd of swine into the sea.
tolerably apparent
from the earliest Egyptian times, the wild boar or pig was identified with the evil principle, just as the emancipated or Free Thinkers have been, very naturally indeed, by the Orthodox and it may be that while those who dared to eat pork which had been butchered were simjily wicked, those who went a step farther, and ate mullo baulor on principle, were "damnable." More than one of the mysterious sects of heretics in the Middle Ages had the pig for a symbol. It would be curious to know if eating pork ever formed a charge against the Knights Templars. The reader will excuse
;
the length of these very speculative remarks, should he

possible that there exists in
deem
it
in such unnatural diet
whose persistency was partially derived from early Indian

class
England a
illumination.
petulAngro te o puro beng.
Tute's shuned o
R6mmany
drom, shai4n,
;
Ta pen
But
sor religionus h6ckerpen
I jins
ke
raslidior sor
Ucheni shan,
tan,
For ml dickdom o b6ng adr6 a
Yek
divvus, sar
minno yackerpen.
'pre a p6v,
Miindy hdtcherduiu
Arati, tal6 yeck boro
rukh
Awer mdndy
ndstis jfnned sur to sOv,

'drc
si
Te chummany
ml Ankaired
to
rciv,
" Tiro bitti myla
welled to dukh."
;"
Pcndiim mandy, "luQks dick avri
Sa
avil ad re o bd.v I wells,

od<'i
Te To
in the rati,
avaU
IIatch6lla o myla, to kushto

Iciskor
si,
habbcn
o'
pus yuv
Idlls.
" Ildvacdi,"
ml rakk'dom,
tdchipen,
Mendui shAmas kushti
pdls,

Yuv'd prAster apre
Chiv
his
at
my
de
shunaben,
till
nak
in
my
vdst,
o'
tute'd
pen
chAls.
'D6vo myla sos y6ck
Kommany
jins sar,
Awer
'd6vo chirus
ml kek
Awer jindom kushto
the trAsh I lulled

bdr,
Hatch^lla pukkeno sims a
Awer
The
Te
jailed
anduro sarasar,
durodirus te
mAndy
willed.
pal'
a bittus yuv yilzhered avri,
Te
the sala jindom the tAchipen,

si
D6vo sl6mmado myla

Te minno
h6ckeny,
si
puro bengs noko k6kero
sos chido dr6 pAnderpen.
KAvakai's kek tAcho te f6ki pen,
K6
sar
o'
de ch6vveny
R6mmany
chAls
Shan Duvvel-nAsherdo wAfFodipen

For o Bengis
av6lla a durriken len,
P6nsi k6ti sar wavior f6ki
pals
E. H.
Palmer.
SMITH AND THE DEVIL.
Mebbe
To
For
you've heard
it's
the
;
Roramany way
say that religion

I
is lies
But
know
it's all
true
what the parsons
say,
saw the Devil myself one Jay,

these 'ere blessed eyes.
With
I
was campin' out on a

I couldn't sleep a
I
field
one night,
But
For
wink
fright.
all right,
suddenly got a sort of a
And
I fancied tlie
donkey warn't
Now
Then
'twas prophecy, that, I

"
tliiiik.
I says,
I'll
take a look around,"
So out
in tlip air I
wont;
half-light I foiirxl
safe
And
there in the
dim
Tliat the
donkey was standin'
ami souml,
A-grazin' outside the tent.
"Come
huj) !" I says, says
I,
to the mok'',
For him and
me was
friends
38

An' he
alius
knew me when
I spoke,
An' he used to cantor up and poke

His nose into
my
hands.
But
this 'ere time,
and
needn't say
That
thought
it
rather rum,
as
still
Though he stood The nigher At

last
as a
lump
of clay,
Yet the furder he seemed

I tried to
to get
away
come.
he wanished out of sight,
And
knew, when day came round,

I'd followed all
That the donkey
through the night

'twas light
Was
I
the Devil himself,
for
when
saw
my own
in the pound.
It's
a wrong idea most folks have got.

like
That Rommany chaps

Haven't any dear
me
God
to look after the lot
For the Devil he tempts us quite as hot
As any one
else,
you
sec.
E. H.
Palmer.
This story was told by a Gipsy in Suffolk,
who
firmly
believed, like the rustic in the old Joe Miller story, that he
had actually seen the Devil or a ghost in the likeness of a

" great ass."
SA LIS JINSA TU?
'
Oh, jfnsa
tu,
ml
chdvi, sa rinkeni
"
?
tiite
shin
"
?
" Avo, dvali, miri dye

"
Awer
si
kek dickam(*ngro
tute
lis,
'drd
1
moro
bitti tAn,
Sa jlnsa
miri chi
" I f6ki 'pr6 o drcjm,
G6rgio
te o E6ra,
8h4n
sig ta
pukker mdndy
sa rinkeni
mi
f6ki
sliom."
" 'Drd sdvo jih,
mi
cluivi,
pukkelan
lis
Ma
pen mcngy
liockaVjen,
ml
chi
Rakker yul Gorgiones or tdcho Kcimmanis 1"

" Oh, ydl ndsti rakker chichi, miri dye
Y(d
susti
pen kek
idv,
Awer
dick aja te sdv,

i
Te jinava shorn
kamlidiri juva 'drc o g4v
"
!
Jankt Tuckky.
HOW no YOU KNOW IT?

my
"
Oh, do you know,

face
?
daughter, that you've a pretty
" Surely, and surely, mother mine

"
"
!
But
see, there's
no mirror, not one

it,
in all the place,

"
1
So how do you know
daughter mine
" Oh, up the road and down,
The "fair
They
tell
folk
and the brown,

no beauty
like
me
there's
myself in
all
the
town."
"
And how do
this
they talk to you
make
;
haste to answer
And tell me no fibs, daughter mine Do they speak the Gorgio language, or good
manis
"
1
old
Rom-
" Oh, they needn't say a word, mother mine

Tliey need only smile so bland,
And
There
isn't
I'm quick to understand

all
such a beauty as myself in
the land
Janet Tuckey.
ENGLISH- GIPS Y
SO.WGS.
tAni mullos
sar
i
'pid o
d6eyav
o'
Shan
sani
chumer
i
the bdv
lullopen apr6
pdbor chdm
o'
Li
si
tdtti
chumer
the
kdm
Te 'dovo
riiikeni dipplor tiri inui
Shdn mlii chumer,
oh,
mi kameli
TiiK
little
bubbles floating on the wave

kisses
Are
all soft
which the west wind gave
The
luscious
glow upon the peach's face

;
Bears blushing witness to the sun's embrace
And
those two dimples, Sweet,
tliat
is it
come and
so
?
go,
Tell talcs of true-love kisses
CHIRIKL
"
PuRO
p4l,
pen y6ckcovva am^ngy,

stars 'drd chlrns
?
Pukka Rommanescro
" Avo, rya.
"
Stdrya shan shirkis,
D6vo
Te
lAv fon chiricli avdlla.
Chlricli shun^lla pensi shirk!

i
shirk'li
shAn sar dodni
chircli
Pa
yfil
mukkcran duro
chlricl6r aratti
si
prdller sh^rro.
Yagni
jdna
the chlrus.'
Te o chone
Y6i av6lla
'Pr6
rani
o'
sig jin6s' sarrfiti
puv
ta poller Ifikis kdnnis."
Charles
G. Leland.
THE STARS.
"
Tell me
tliis,
old friend,
if
you can
tell it,
?
What's the
" Yes,
Rommany
for stars in
heaven
my
master.
Stars with us are shlrkis,

it.
And from
chlridis or birds, I take
For the birds and
stars are like in nature
Stars are only birds of light in heaven,
Flying far above our heads for ever

Birds of
fire
which only
fly in
darkness
And
the moon's the lady of the heavens,

nightly, certain in her coming,
Coming
O'er the
meadow,
just to feed her chickens."
ClLiRLES G. LeLAND.
Chirki, or ghirici, a star in
Rommany, may
pos.sil)ly
have
tlic
Homfithing in
common
witli the Per.->ian chirkh^
meaning
aky, or chirn/ih, a lamp.
The
i<lca Iktc; oxjircssod
is
given very nearly in
tlieworiii
of an old 'Jijisv.
PURI rOMMANY DYE'S DUI CHAVIOR.
Jassin yek divvus adr6 a gdv,
A
Te
cla6vvany bitti k6r I Mtched,
a puri
R6mmany, Bunce by ndv

'dre
Ak6nya
ad6vo hatched.
" Sar'shdn tu,"
p6ndum,
" piiri
dye
"
?
Te
(Tu
my
stdrdy leldum slidrro avri
s4sti k^ravit
sims a rye,
Katn^ssa tu rakker 'dr^ R6mmany).

" S6ssi," putched
mdndy, " deari dye,

?
A dye
Te
"
sims tute kairengri shdn
Kai's tute
mukkered your
f6ki,
1
kai
kai tu cbldas o bitti t4u
Ah
a cli6vveny juva
'dre
mdndy
shorn,
Sor ak6nya
puripen I jiv
Buti chirus ndsherdum miro rom,
Te
as for tdnya, I've
kek
to chiv.
ENGL/SH-GIPSY SOXGS.
"
45
Awer
Yek
dui chdvior
o'
mdndy
lells,
l^ndy's riimmor'd a Gorgiko
mush
Ah
rya, to waffodipen she wdlls,

rdtfelo
For the
"
Gorgio kairs her
dusli.
Kek
Tho'
kamiiva
lier
lati
sa l)uti
ajfi,
waffody jhvin
it
kairs
me
r()v
Awer yek
so
kamava
kushtidir,
Sov(5lla ad re o kdngri pov."
E.
H. Palmer.
THE OLD WOMAN'S TWO DAUGHTERS.
Walking about in a village, On a wretched little hovel

Where was
living a lonely
came
once,
Gipsy dame,
of Phoebe Bunce.
Who
"
went by the name

are you,
How
mother
"
And
as I spoke
I lifted
my
hat from off

to talk to
my
head
folk,
(If
you want
Gipsy
You must
"
act like a gentleman born
and bred).
My
dear old lady,"
asked, " how's this?
house
isn't surely
left
the place for you

1
Where have you

Your
tent
;
your folk
miss
1
why, where have you put that to
" I'm a poor old

I live in
I lost
woman, and
all
alone
;
my
old age as
you see
my
husband long years agone,

is
And
as for tents, there
none for me.
"
14/
But two dear daughters
I still
have
got,
;~
One
Ah,
sir
of 'em's married an English lad

!
but hers
is
a hard, liard
lot,
For the wretched fellow he

"
treats her bad.
The
love as I bears to her

to think of her
is
small,
I often
all.
Though
sorrow
weeps
But the one
as I loves the best of

sir,
In a lonely churchyard,
she sleeps."
E. H.
Palmer.
Tlie
above conversation, recalling

it
"'
We
are Seven,"
is
given
nearly as
was
carrieil
on between an old Gipsy
woman
anil a friend of the writer.
LEL RAKi
Lel
Jal
i
rak, pal
graiya
hatch apr5 piaster

!
PrAster pa tiro miraben

rye av6lla, tAchipen,
Tu
Te
lurdas o graia kaliko

vel
yuv dicksa
tute,
Yuv
Te
sh6llela avri
talk yakengro,
bitcherav tute ke stAripen.

lel
Lel vin,
trAd
J. T.
Look sharp, brother hurry away Run Run the horses I'm telling you Run for your life
! !
true,
The
farmer's coming
stole the horse
if
the one
from yesterday
;
You And
he gets a glimpse of you,
He'll call the police,
and then the beak
Will keep you
in jail for
!
many a
week.
Take care
beware
J. T.
MIRI
KA MELT PIRRtNI.
JiNAVA
m<5
tdcho ndv
Ku-shtiko c6vvar adre o gav
Aver kushtidiro a m^ngi

Si mlri
z\
kameli pirryni.
adriii o tan,
:
Bdshava sunlivviis
Penava
foki, " Sarishan

b(5sli,
"
Aver
Itushava
ta dlckav o
mui
0' miri kameli pirryni.
Kaniuva
te vol
a boro rye
Kamava
To
ta
l(5l
a kQslito gry
i
Aver wiisserava
dui avrl,
chuincr mi kameli pirryni.

CiiAi:i,i;s
G. Lklanh.
THE GIRL WHO LOVES ME WELL.
CAN
tell
you the name right down
Of the
prettiest things in all the

isn't
town
sell
But there
So
a thing the people
fine as the girl
who
loves
me
well.
I sit in
And,
"
my Gipsy tent all daj-, How are you all " to the
%
folk I say
tell,
But
I'd sit for a year,
and
it's
truth I
loves
For a glimpse of the
girl
who
me
well.
Oh, I'd like to he a lord, of course,
And
I'd like to
have a hunting-horse
But the one and the other

For a
kiss
I'd gladly sell,
from the
girl
who
loves
me
well.
Charles
G. Leland.
set
This ballad is founded on no especial incident, but may lie down as Roniniany, havin;^ met willi a cordial reception
tent-Gipsies.
among
R OMMANY JINA BEN.
Apre
Yag
a ratti 'dre a shillo

'vri
wen
poggerella
adr6 a ker,
Ye mushor
Yeck
"
sar for yngeris miraben

:
Praster, te k(ikkeno jins sa ta kair

rikk'la p4ni, te a
waver
shells
Huker ye ciWvus
gruvni gujers te
liitti
sar apr6 ye
i
puv
;
"
1
Ye
Ve
grdsni dells
tlknos te
juvas ruvv.
Awer
An'
a chovveni RummaTiy jiiva wells,
h.itcliin
push o ye yagescro club,

penla
Hotclit'lla w.lstor,
Kom'ny
jib
"
yag's a kushti ccWva Mii; o wen,

sT
Yeck's wfifro bfik
wfivior's
kainmabcn."
K.
H. Tai-mku
GIFS Y FHIL SO PHY.
One
wintry night, upon a certain farm, broke out

;
fire
the folks in great alarm,

to Jo, all run about.
Not knowing what
Some bring up
The oxen
water, others only shout

"
!
" Fetch out the things into the field here, quick
bellow,
and the horses kick
The
little
children and the
women
cry
But a poor Gipsy who was passing by

Stood near the flames
tliat
from the building sprung,

:
And warmed
"
her hands, and said in Gipsy tongue
A fire
in winter does
one good to see
What's your bad luck may prove good luck

E.
to
me
H. Palmer.
FRANK COOPER.
A
A
l6rdus
vias
kt^ti
wd]g6ro
Eya
te
raniya shan bdrveli
tano rye te a kaiuelo
Avo, mi pirrynl, avali
rye yuv dickdas Frank Cooper
ad(ji
Avo, mi pirrynl, avali

Sar buti dudeni
pivlioi
For
lurdi.s an'
swolli sa barvoli.
If'irdus
sliundas
mi Rummani pdn,
sa barveli
" Well dn,
mi ryor
lei
Sig 'dusta you
your l6vvy again
If you'il wfisser
my
k6shters, avali.
" Dick at
I)i(k at
Il.itchin
tlie
tlif^
siggabens, rya, dick

nlitti, avali,
al/mgus sar of a rikk,

ryor sa barveli.
lldtcliin' for
54
" Trin koshters a li6rra shdn kavacui,
bdvol pudela, avali,
Kushto ta del
at the pivli6i
Kushto
"
for ryor sa barveli.
Yeck
nvittus besliella 'pr6 l6ster kosh,
Sdvvyin, salerin, avali
But kenna-sTg tute
vel k(5relen dusli,

dovali.
An' muller the monkeys,

"
Ryas chdvor,
pirri akdi,
Kenna
Lei
o'
si
o chAnsus, avali
mi
koshters, kushto rye
Si pydss for foki sa barveli."
rye las Cooper's kcjshter ad6i,
But adusta,
sa ryor barveli, at the pivlioi,
Te wussered adr6m
Te
lelldas a butus, avali.

o'
But vrhen pash
the pivli6i sos mored
An the rye had lulled akova-li, Yuv lAtched his boro chdkko was
Sa ydv
sas a-wusserin
chored,
avali.
boro chukko te twenty b4r
For the rye
sos yeck o' the barsêli

te sar,
An' his pani wdsteni
Ndsho
te jlllo, avali.
EiWGLrSH-GlPSY SONGS.
Pukkerdas
"
rj'e
o Ii6mmani chal
si
Miro chukko
choredo, avali
An' tute a-hatchin just anerjal
Sa p^nnas
tiite o'
dovali
" If f6ki SOS lodderin miro ker,

Chorerii foki or bArveli,
"Fore I'd
mukk
'em be luredo I'd sigger mer,

ilvali
An'
tute's
a Romraani,
si
"
!
Frank Cooper
pordo
o'
kalo ratt,
As sane
To shun
as yeck kekava-li,
if
But willed as pano as

o' tlie
he were skat,
r/a, avali.
Frank Cooper's a mush k6
si
bunnak,
Ydv'U kekker kdravit waver-li

An' the beng never (licked more hunnalo
Than
I^'raid'C
when
lu;
sliunavit, avali.
Yiiv hdtclied a slggus pukkenus,
Te shuned
o'
the ryas
l;lva-li
Then prdstercd
'Dr(i
avrl sims divius,
the sig
o'
the mushor, avali.

his kokcro,
Th(r rye never
dukkered
o'
For yuv sos y^ck
the bArveli,
An' patscred the Cooper tdcheno,
So
yiiv rakkcreil Ali.sa, avali.
156
Till the
R6mmani
chAl vias pala(i6i,
Yuv
bashed an' shuned lakis Idva-li

ap6pli to
It^ster plvli6i
When
Frank willed with the chukko,
avali.
Y6ck
o' l6stis
yakkor
s6s kalo aja,
An' the waver wasn't waver-li,
As
if
yuv'd dicked the btog te sa
Since yliv dicktav the r/a, avali.
" 'Kai's tiro w6ngur, mi rye," pens he, " 'Kai's the I6vvy sa barveli
'Kai shan
i
pani wasteni
tdcho, avali
0'
Dick
if it's
" Mdndy's tukno
hdtchin sa longadur,
Awer man
An'
I
nasti k^ravit waver-li,
For with kurom^scros a mush must kur,

had ta kur
for
it
avali
"
!
rye lulled listers putsi avrl,
An' Idtched the w6ngur sa
barveli,
An' d6lled p4nj bdr to the R6mmani,
As a
An'
rye should k6ravit, avali.

the pivlioi
if tute'll jal to
At
the
Epsom
prdsterin, waver-li,
Tute can dick Frank Cooper ad6i
An' Alls
yCivs juva, avali.
ENGLISH-GJPS Y SONGS.
Si tute kamdss' mutterm^ngerl,
You
An'
if
can
lei it
fon Idns kekavi-li,

~
Alls the juva isn't avrl,
Y6i'll
dukker your raui
avali
G.
Charles
Leland.
FRANK COOPER.
A A
LORD he went
Oh, lords are
little lord,
to the fair one day,
rich,
and
their ladies too
and
his
heart was gay,
Yes,
my
darling, I tell
you
true.
The
lord he
saw Frank Cooper there

you true
!
Yes,
my
darling, I tell
With
a lot of cocoa-nuts at the
fair.
All for lords and gentlemen too.
The
"
lord he heard
Frank Cooper shout
Come, noble
gents, here's the
game
for
you
You'll win back your money, you needn't doubt,

If
you throw these here

a chance,
sticks, I tell
you
true.
"
Look what
Look
my
be.
noblemen, see
at the nuts, don't I tell
you true \
All along in a
row they
Waiting
for
gentlemen just
like you.
" Three sticks a penny,
59
my
lords, look here
And
the wind's a blowin' just right for you
You'll hit the cocoa-nuts, never fear,
And win
'
the lot
don't I
its
tell
you true
Every cocoa-nut's on
stick
!
So pert
IJut
why,
they might be laughin' at you

fall
take a throw, and they'll

you'll kill tlie
so quick,
And
monkeys,
I tell
you
true.
' Gentlemen's sons, won't
you step
this
;
way
Here
is
your chance,
I tell
you true
Come, take hold of the

This
is
sticks
and play
the
game
for swells like you."
The
lord took twenty or thereabouts

lot, as
Took a
gentlemen do,
And he fired away at the cocoa-nuts, And punished them well, I tell you
Jiiit
true.
when
lialf
the imts were tumbled
down
tlirew
With
so clever a
hand the gentlciuan
He
found that ids overcoat was gone,

h(! l<-ft
So
off
playing
ay, that
is true.
beautiful coat
and twenty pouml

rich
The
lord
was
and the coat was new

thrown on
true.
tin- Lfiouiid.
And
his light kid gloves he'il
All of "em stolen
I tell
you
60

lord he said
coat
The
"
Why,
I tell
this is too
bad!
My
is stolen,
you true
And you
were near
it,
my
Gipsy lad
shall I
Where's the
thief,
and what
do
" If I had a guest," the lord he said,

" Eich like myself or poor like you,
'Fore I'd see
him robbed
I'd sooner
is
be dead,
"
!
And
you're a Gipsy
ay, that
is
true
Frank Cooper's blood
as
dark as night,
As black
as the pot in
which Gipsies stew
But you'd think he was
shot, he
grew
so white
When
he heard the lord

as
yes, I tell
you
be,
true.
Frank Cooper's
proud as proud can
As proud
as the devil
and
all his
crew
than
lie
And never looked When he heard

He
devil
more
fierce
the gentleman
ay, that's true.

;
said not a word, the Gi])sy
man.
But stopped and heard the gentleman through
And
then, as
if
he was mad, he ran

tell
Where
The
the crowd was thickest, I
you
true.
lord didn't trouble himself a bit
He was one of the rich, and they are few He trusted the liommani, as was fit. And talked to Alice, as gentlemen do.
l6l
He sat him down by He let her chatter,

Till
her side, and then

as Gipsies do,
Frank came back
to the nuts again,
Bringing the great-coat as good as new.
One
As
of his eyes
its
was
as black as coal,
;
And
if
fellow
was much the same colour too

all
he'd seen the devil and

left
Since he
the lord
yes,
I tell
you
true.
" Here's the money, " Here's your
my
lord," said he,

all safe for
money
you
And
the fine white gloves, why, here they be

if
Look
they're right
have
man
I told
you true
" I'm sorry that you've been kept waiting so,
But
came
as fast as a
could do
fight,
For with fighting chaps one must
you know.
And
The
had
to fight for
it,
that
is
true."
lord he took his purse from the coat,

;
And found his money all right and true And he gave the Gipsy a five-pound note
Gave
it
so free, as a lord should

to the
<lo.
Now
With
if
you go
Epsom
I
race,
You'll see
all ilia
Frank Cooper,
cocoa-nuts
promise you,
in tlicir place,
And
Alice, his wife,
1 tell
you
true.
l62
ENGUSH-GIPSY SONGS.
And And
if
you wish
for a
cup of
tea,
it
They'll boil the kettle and give

if
you
Alice
is
there,
your
lady'll see
tell it true.
She'll tell her fortune,
and
Janet Tuckey.
Frank Cooper was told me, not by the Gipsy by a gentleman who was present at the occurAs the affair was very much rence described in the ballad.
The
story of
himself, but
to Frank's credit, I
have not hesitated
to give his
I
name.
It
may
be observed that, for the sake of the rhyme,
have taken
class, in ex-
a liberty not
uncommon
in ballads of a
Idvali,
humble
tending Jmv (a word) to

readers
waver (other) to waverli, and
kekdvi (kettle) to kekdvali.
For the information of those
who do
a cocoa-nut
sticks,
know what the game of cocoa-nuts, or cock-shy, may be, I would explain that stout
not
feet long, are
about four
stuck either into the ground
or into coarse baskets of matting filled with earth.
These are
placed in a row, about four feet apart, and behind them at a

little
distance there
is
a screen of canvas.
On
the end of each
stick a small cocoa-nut rests, not fastened, but
simply balanced. The player hires from the proprietor of the game a bundle of short sticks, about two feet in length, for which he pays
a halfjênny each,
more
or less
according to the bargain
driven and the quantity taken.

to displace the cocoa-nuts,
He
then places himself about
twenty-five feet from the stakes, and throws, his object being
he can knock them

to prevent the sticks of the jday.
It
is,
off.
which become his property when The canvas screen is indispensable

inflicting injury
ous for
beyond the limits and very dangerthe Gipsy attendants, who, liowever, far from avoiding
of course, a rough game,
from
the sticks, often put themselves in the
way
of receiving serious
injuries,
l6'
hoping to get a present from the thrower.

I
Their
indifference to such hurts is very remarkable.
have seen
hastily
Frank Cooper with a long and deep cut. across his head, bound up, playing away in a few minutes, and crying
out the characteristic phrases embodied in the ballad, as if nothing had happened. I may add, with regard to cocoa-nuts,
the Gipsies believe, or pretend to believe, that one given by them as a present brings that hick which they are always
bestowing so freely on others, but of which they have so themselves, as Callot observed long ago.
little
D UKKERIN.
Chiv a
tani bit o s6naki lovo

o'
Adre the vdst

An'
I'll
de
Rommany
dye
pen yer a dukkeripen,
my
chi.
rani
The
kushtiest ever I panned a
There's a kushko pano rye as
kams you,
An' tute kamessa l6s tdcho aja An'

'd6is
a waver, a kalo geero,
Merin
for tiro
kam
kenna.
pirreno ydk, chi,
Te
Te
tute'll
rummer the
be dye
An' a t4chi r6mni'll tute k6r

tute'll
o'
dui ch4vyor,
till
Te
jiv adr6
kushkipen
you m6r.
An'
if
mdn'y
jins so the staror pukker,
To-divvus'll riggur you kdtteni.
D6rdi
akai's
a rye a wellin
That
jins
my
dukkcrin tdcho
si
Mtikk mengy dukker your k6k'ro, rya
65
So
mandy
can't
pen
lis
mdndy
began
!
can.
Ma tute
sav' at
dukkerin pala
For d6vo
sos sar the tern
E. H.
Palmer.
FOR TUNE- TELLING.
Cross the poor old Gipsy's hand now
With a
little bit
of gold
You've the best of luck,
my
lady,
That the
stars
have
ever told.
There's a fair young
man
as loves you,
;
And you love him fond and true

There's a dark young fellow also,
Dyin'
all for
love of you.
love, miss,
And
you'll
you'll
marry him you
And And
make
a first-rate wife
You'll be mother of
two
children.
be happy
if I
all
your
life.
And
You
As
Look
can read the stars right.
will
!
meet him here to-day
here's
some one just a comin'
will bear out all 1 say.
ENGLISH-GIPSY, SONGS.
Shall I tell your fortune too,
67
sir
What
I can't
Oh, yes
I can.
:
Don't you laugh
at fortune-telling
!
'Twas with that the world began

E. H.
Palmer.
Si miri
chumya shan kushti
to ha,
!
Tu
ndsti hatch b6ckalo, d6ari, aja
If kisses of mine were good to
eat,
You
shouldn't go hungry long,
my
sweet
THE GAVENGROES.
As mdndy was
I
pirryin 'pr^ the clr6m,
dicked the iÂtteran of a
R6m,
Of a Rommany
chdl as I did
know
Petulengr6.
And
And And
the ndv
o'
the
mush
'us
longo duro did
m4ndy
%
j^ss,
;
Till I willed to the
yag where yuv did besh
he pens
me
" Sarishdn
" How do you do

he
"' 1
For a tdcho
"
Eum
was Petulengro.
1
What bak ta-diwus

It's
" I pens, an'
Pens " Wdfodo bak" aja to me.

"
wdfro bak wherever

aldngs
o'
I goes,
An'
all
them gavengroes.
" If I lells a k6shter fon a b4r,
There wells ta mdngy a h6ppercore.
And
it's
bak
if I ain't
starm^skero
Along
o'
adduvel gav^nger6.
" If
69
mindy's adr^ in
my
tan alay,
An' a balor wells an the dnim apr6
Yuv
For
" If
chivs
it
me
avrl, so
!
out I goes,
alters ja
with them giivengroes.

to a
k(^r,
my juva jals
you
jin,
A pdnnin
Aldng
o'
a bitto dukkerin,
Y6i's trisherdo mullo the fust she knows,
them b^ngalo gdvengr6es.
" I shuns a geero rakker to
me
As akovo's a
But
I
tern
o'
liberty,
pens the liberty
mdndy
k6k
o'
stows,
Is a tern
where
there's
them gdvengr6es.
" Oh, I've klled adusta o'k6vvo tem,
With
An'
its
ryes and rdshis an' sitch as
them
its
pirl the pdni 'fore
Ungs
I goes.
To
a tem where there isn't no gdvengr6es.
" Ad6vo'8 the
tem
for a dukkerin
Ad^vo's the tem for dudikabin
Kai you
jals as pirr' a the bavol
blows
Hespesherly from them gdvengn'ies.
"The
'Merican<;skro tem,
my
p.'il
Adovo's the tem for a K(jmmaiiy
dial.
For fon sir
shun, an' fon sar
knows,
They
don't kiissur adoi for no gdvengroes."
ClIARLKS G. LeLAJ^D.
THE POLICE.
As
I
was going along the way,
saw the tracks where a Gipsy lay

fellow
Of a Gipsy
whom
I did
know,
Petulengro.
And
the
so I
name
of the
man was
And
Till I
went on the road a

to the fire
bit,
came
where
I
1
saw him
"
And he
For a
"
said to me, " Sarishan
" How do you do

me
sit
real
Eom
was Petulengro.
What
It's
luck for the dayl" I asked, and he
Said, "
Wery bad
along
luck," again to
"
wery bad
all
luck, that never will cease.
And
o'
these here police.
" If I pulls a bit of a stick
from a hedge,
its
There's a
bobby a bobbin' along

if I ain't in o'
edge
An'
An'
"
it's
luck
prison a piece.
all
along
that 'ere police.

little
When
I'm sound asleep in our

an'
camp,
;
The Pigs come down
they make us tramp
They
For
" If roots
lyi
me
'
out,
and
I gets
!
no peace
'ere police.
it's
allers
Move on
'
with them
my
missus gets in a house, you know,

a bit of a fortin' or
so.
To
tell
They
scares her almost to her de-cease.

nat'ral devils, is
For they're
them
police.
" I heard a fellow preachin' to me.
As
An'
this is the land o' liberty

I tells
But
him my
none
o'
liberty
is
peace
there's
that there, where you has police.

o'
" Oh, I've
had enough
this land, I say,
With
An'
its
lords
and parsons
I
an' sitch as they
it's
over the water

there
tell
goes like geese,
To a land where
" There you can
isn't
no
j)olice.
a fortin' or so
;
There you can clear out the things, you know

There you are
free as the l^lowin' Ijrecze
jtolice.
:
Ilespesherly from thc-m vile
"The 'Mcncan
For from
land,
thinks,
mayhap,
;
Is just the spot for a

all I
lioramany chap
hears, there they lives at peace,

for
An' the people don't care
no
police.
Chakles G. Leland,
Tlii.s b;illail
was partly written (me day while aasociating and waa drawn from
tlieir
with
f Jipsies,
own remarks.
ROMMANIS LEL
SAR.
O KRAL-RUKK
Y6i'll
kamela d6eyav
for lister pirryni,

Idv, yoi pells sa sTg avri.
k^kker dick nor shun a
O Rom
ker^la lester tAn adrd o rukkor lock

i
Lels pdnni fon
d6eyav, te koshters fon o shock.

romeli,
boro G6rgio kams a chi for

yoi'll
l($ster
Awer
k^kker shun o
rye, sa jala sig avri.
" Sa jinsa tu ad6vo,
mi puri
kali
i
dye ?"
Oh, mdndy dukkered saridui,

Av6llan y^ck ak6nyo,
rani te o rye.
rani te o rye,
Te
saridui d^s
m^ngy
sa buti s6nnakai.
boro rukk,
1 dlnneli
d6eyav, o
mush
lei
so kamela,
juva, R6mmanis
kushto bak fon
sa.
Janet Tuckey.
ALL
IS
FISH TO THE GIPSY NET.
An
oak-tree loves a rivulet, but she will never stay

at
To look
him or hear a word, she runs
so fast away.
And there beneath the forest boughs the Rommanis are free
To take
the water from the brook and firewood from
the tree.
There's a lord that loves a lady, and she will never stay
To hear him when he speaks

away.
"
of love, but lightly trips
My
Gipsy mother, can you

"
%
tell
how
all
of this
was
known
I'lie
lord
and lady carno

to
to rac,
and each of them alone

crosscnl
They came
gold,
me
so secretly
and
my hand
witli
Tliey sat inside the Gipsy tent, and had tluir fortune told.
From
From
the lover and his lady, from rividet and tree,

all
of
them wo help
ourselves,
f(jr
we
are
Rommani.
Jankt Tuckkv.
CHARLIE O RASHIMENGRO.
ain't lelled kck religion,
An'
I'll
kek ankair kenna,

foki
But
if
waver
kams
aja.
lis,
Mukk
lenJy kair
Te m4ndy kek
0' sar ye
kairs pydss
waver ch4ls
If a chAvo jals to kangri,
Ma
sdvvy at
Idste, pals
But sAvo mdndy pukkers,
Adovo tacho
drom
si
si,
adr6 a geero
Yuv
sAsti Avell avrl.
D6i's Charlie o Rasliim6ngro-
Te
Ke,
'c6vo mdndy'll pen,
mukk
kangrdski cuvvar
sT
De mush
tdchipen.
1/5
Yuv
rakkela troosal de Scripturs,

si
Jinella sar
adre
Tu'd pdtser lendy
tdclio,
To shun
Adre
o' lis
del apre.
o heb,
yuv pukkers,
A
Te
ch6veno kinyo mush

apr^, te
Can hatch
muscros
lis
vel k(jkker kair
dush.
Awer
Te
chalor so h<)cker,
pi te sovahal,
Te
vel
k^kker raukkdo
adr(i
lis,
Sa mdn
Awer,
te vel kek'ra jal.
sig as
a weshni-juckal
ki'mi avri,
si
Te
vel
hukkcr a
Klin Charlie's ratt
tAtto
Av6lla o K6mmani.
Lis
dickdom awaver
lis
rati
be.sli,
Ghioin kcti
T(;
kdr to
giver pali a chfngari
Adre adovo wcsh.

I'cndas yuv
:
"Mi
lei
pukkiioni tukcy
dilkk.
Te 'dovo
()
to
you
weshni-kaiii-chiMiii
'Vel rig yer
men
to the rukk."
176
Te
h6tchi
" So sos tu kairin

!
Fordia wafropen
Te pdnderdas
hev6ngror
An' riggered de plopen.

"
Mi ghiom
a^TI,"
mi p^ndum
Tal6 the dud ad6i,
To dickav
a weshni kdni
for
Or rudder
yeck
sliosli6i.
" Te dickum wesh^ngror w^llin,
An' churied apr6 a rukk
"
Pens yuv, " Miduvel ford6 For a walin

o'
lis,
wrath
an'
dukk
" Yol r6dderd^ 'pr6 a bittus,
Te jallan
'
avo,
sor
But yeck
"
pens puro Charlie,

!
" Yuv's trAshipen ba, to chore

""Sar the
dud
o'
the chone apre
lis.
Mi
dicks so
l6ste si
rdtfelo
w^sh^ngro
So man' kairdas sa waffodi.

"
Yuv
nAsti kaired a
warmiut
Kek
"
wdfrodiro, ba
!
The beng
"
pons puro Charlie,

aja."
Mas6vahal
" I yagengri,
77
mi dicked
chiv,
lis
Tale
rukkor
Te hockered
It
sa sTg apre
lis,
trashered
him out
of his
jiv.
"
Mi
l(5ldom' is 'drd
it
mi wastor,
zl,
Te pet
atut his
'
:
Te pendom
Marava
"
Puk^ssa a lavus,
tut' slg avrl.'
Yuv hatchdas
Te kdkera
apre sar puk'no,
\&\\slb
kek
trAsh,
Sa yagengri
sos chido
pasli.
Atut his mui,

"
Penava mi
'
:
S'up mi Diivel,
Shan boro
slg o zl
Del idvus kek to slommor,
Mukkava
tut' jal avri.'
" Yi'iv pukkers
'
:
I'll
kair
my
hutsi,
!
Tho'
jins you've lelled mi, pal

pr.istcr,
Awcr
Te
mfikorav' tute
m/in'y'il
\v(;]I
palAl.'
" Sa dlom
lis
o yagungji,
siras divio
"
!
Te chindom
Te shorn akai
"
j)C'ns
Charlif,
M'ArAunyo parraco
178
"
ENGUSU-GIPSY SONGS.
Awer,
te
lis
sos a-mengy,
Lis k^kkera
mukdom ja,
his horror,
L^ldom mi
beng's yag^ngri,
Te poggered
ba
E. H.
Palmer.
PREACHING CHARLIE.
don't know much of
religion.
:
And
But
if
I ain't a goin' to learn

uj)
any one takes

is
with
it,
That there
his
own
concern.
I'm not the kind of party
As
If a
alius goes in for chaff
man does go to meetin', What call have you to laugh

do maintain
is,
IJut wliat 1
However much you

The ways
Must come out
try,
as you've once got in yer

])y
and
liy.
Now there's old Preachin' Charlie And this I'm bound to say,
There's no one, barrin' his prayin',
More honest than Charlie Gray.
l8o
E\'GUSH-GIPSY SONGS.
He's learnt to read, has Charlie,
And spelt the Scripture through And to hear him talk about it,
You'd half believe
it's
true.
And
he says as
how
in
heaven
The weary
are at peace,
troublin',
An' the wicked cease from

An' they don't keep no
police.
But he says
as
how
lie
to git there,
;
You mustn't
nor drink
And
as that's agin all natur',

see me, I think.
They wont
But a
fox'll
show
his breedin'
If there's ever a
hen about
old Charlie,
So whenever you
His
riles
Eommany
blood comes out.

I see
The other night

I
him
went
I'd
to his house to hide,

l>it
For
had a
of a shhidy
side.
On
yonder cover
I alius
Says he, "
warned you,
But
it ain't
a bit of use
Them
poachin' tricks you're
up
to
Will get your neck in a noose."
Says
he, "
l8l
What
icere
you arter
"
!
The Lord
forgive your sin
And he
fastened up the shutters,
And
Says
I,
fetched
"
I
me
out the gin.
was out by moonlight
A
Or a
lookin' about for a hare,
rabbit or two, or a pheasant,

to set a snare.
Or mebbe
" But
I
see the keepers comin',
And
clambered up a tree
"
;
'.
Says Charlie, "
May God
o'
forgive you
"
!
What
'
a wessel
wrath you be
Well, they hunted about for a
little.
Then
all
went
off
but one,
:
Who
"
"
stopped behind
risks
"
Says Charlie,
!
What
them poachers run
Then the moonlight shone upon him.
And who do you

As
alius
think
see,
But the wcrry self-same ranger
was down on me.
" If I'd a been so
much
varmint,
He
The
couldn't ha' served

!
me
worse
"
" Can't you talk,"
.-âys
?
Charlie.
" Without a hoatli or a curse
152
" Well, arter a bit he rested
His gun agin a stump,
And down
come upon him,

it
So sudden
made him jump.

up,
"And I took and snatched the gun And put it agin his head
Says
I,
'
You
shout or holloa,
!
And
"
you're as good as dead
He never moved a muscle. And I never see him flinch,

Within a half an inch
Tho' the muzzle touched his forehead

!
"
Says
I,
'
You
are a plucked
un
And no
If
mistake
and so
follow,
let
you promise not to
Hang me
"
but
I'll
you
go.'
Says he,
'
I'll
Though
But
my duty, knows I am in your

do
if I
power
I don't
mind
give you
start of a half
an hour.'
his
" So I hands
him back
like
weapon,
;
And cuts away And here I am "

!
mad
Says Charlie,
you're safe,
"
Thank heaven
my
lad
'
iS^
But
if
I had had the handhu'
That gun instead of you,

I'll
a taken the butt-end on

his legs in
it,
And smashed
two
E. H.
Palmer.
This story is told as it was related to a friend by a very well-known Gipsy or, I should say, as it was very naively He began the narrative in u told by the preacher himself. highly moral tone, but, becoming excited, ended in tlie words
;
of the last verse.
RANI TE O RYE.
Having
song,
read to an English Gipsy a
German Rommany
Leipzig, 18G3),
dialect.
is
given by R. Liebich {Die Zigeimer,

it
he promptly translated
original
is
into his
own
The
Fr.
as follows.
The Latin
version
by Dr
Miklosich {Uher die Mundarten und die

der Zigeuner Europas, Wien, 1873).
Wanderungen
Cakervela
Tegit
I
rani rajes peskere balensa

suis C7'inibiis.
domina dominum
gadze pal o wuder tarda

post januam stant.
te
Homines
Kamena
Vohmt
dikena me.
ut videant me.
Ho
gerena kettenc
Quid faciamus una
Me mukkava
Ego
dimitto
te
tute
nit.
nou
Kostela es
gleicli niiro
maropeuu
Etiamd
stet
mea
morte.
Te
hi tut' efta prdla

iihi
Si sunt
septem fratres.
Te
kellela
mlro dzi
vita,
Si saltat mea
Ap
Tu
Ta
o lengero charo.
In eorum gladio,
hal miri te atchalia miri.
es
mea,
et
manehis mea.
THE LADY AND THE LORD.
ENGLISH ROMMANY.
I
RANI shakerella o rye sar p6skri
bdllor,
wiidei-.
" I g6rgior shan tArderin poller the
Kamena
ta dlkk
mdndy.
%
Ko
kdiren
men
k^ttene
tute
" Mi'll net

If it kosts
mukkav
mengy miro miraben.

h6fta pralor,
Shan tukey
Te mlro
Apr6
zi k^llela,
l^ngeris harro,
te
Tu
shdn mlri
atcha mlris."
ENGLISH.
The
lady with her flowing hair

lover
o'er.
Has covered her

" There are
men who wish
to see
me
here
Are hiding behind the door.
87
What What
cau
we do
together
canst thou do for
me
" I will not let thee go,
my
love,
Though
I lose
my
life
for thee.
Thou
hast seven brothers.
Though my
lieart
Should leap upon their sword,

Whilst thou art mine and
I
am
thine
ever will
keep
my
word."
Charles
CI.
Lelank.
O BORO
divvîsko dlvvus
Ko si adxiwel ? Kim tu sovd'ss' alAy

Keti bnro Duvvel.
M. V
Tell me what
wlion unto
is
The Judgment Day?

It is
Hod
Yi)ii
drcau) away.
('.
G. L
RdMMANESKRO KAAIMABEN.
Oh, luandy shorn choro
t6 kalo
Oh, mandy sh6m k6k pensa rye
Ma k^ssur clilchi pa aduUo Ma k^ssur, mi R6mmani

Oh, dikkav o bOro kekavi
Si wilfro te kalo,
clii
we
jin
Awer hdder
Shy^n
si
o hub, rairi chavi a kAiii

adriii.
Oh, dikkav adov' hotchewltchi,
Yuvs chukko
si
kalo aja,
:
Sim
spinyor, sa ruzno te nitchi
Les'
mas
si
but kushto to ha.
Te
vol tu si v^l tu
rummado mishto
rumessa sigdn,
Te
Te
Ldtch^ssa ke
mandy sh6m kushto

Tlummani shdn.
sar mdri
Janet Tuckey.
GIFSY WOOING.
My
But
face is as
brown
as a berry,
You'd never take

that will not
me
for a swell
less merr}-,
make me
girl loves
So long as
my
me
well.
That kettle
Outside
is
just like your lover

as ugly as sin
lift
;
'tis
Dut go now, and
up the cover
Perhaps there's a chicken within.
And
And
look at that hedgehog out yonder

;
He's ugly enough for a show

his bristles,
why, they are a wonder
And
So
if
yet he's good eating, y<ni know.

will
you
if
nuury me early
So
you'll be gentle and true

I'll
You'll find that
love you as diaily

do.
As ever a Gipsy can
J.VNKT TUCKEV,
/ CHdVIHANI.
Men
ghiom
keti giv6scro k6r,
I rani sos pani, te
slm to m^r
Awer kdna
Te pandas,
" M6r6lla
"
y6i dlckdas
R6mmani,
Yoi rakkerdas in(5ngy kushteni,

pilli
o Sarishan
m^ngy
!
o chuvihan.
Dickadoi
avella kenna,
!
wafro covva k^llin aja

!
Miduvel
Sikker
"Men dlkkdom
adre,
;
alAy,
Ad6i pash o wuder, dikkin
Vds a boro j6mpa hockerin dn

Yoi shelldas
:
" Ad6vo's ml ch6vihan
" Sar-divvus, sa.r-6ra av6lla akai,
Te
St
hdtchel' apr6,
beng^skri dy6.
mdndy
chivava o c6vva avrl

;
T'vela hockerin 'popli dickinav mi

Sa-rati
shunava
lis
pali o tan,
An' sutto sarja o the ch6vihan."
T^nna rakkerdum ketnes
in
IQI
Rommani,
Te pendum akovo k^ manushi

" Chiv amc^ngy bOro katsas akai/
Te a
curro o lun, mi kusliti chi,

si
Te
sar o covva'll
sig sar^n,
Kana m^ndi
Simno
triisel
lelova o chovihan."
i
kdtsas
ja,
we
lei,
Te
jompa
nasti
pirri padel
Awer wdfro
'Driiia
gtidlo lis
si
shundom
:
kair,
Les jindas Gra
vel ta in6r
yag
sari kdtsas cliidom lis dii,
Te
yui wusserdas lun 'pr6 o ch6vihan.

i
Kon
rani das mcingy
moro
te mas,
L^vinor 'dusta
te bdllovds,
o'
Te a kushto pash-bdr
s6nnakî
\(A les
Tiinna butsi-mush sasto
wye.
Te tacho
si
Rommanis
Icl
well to tan
Vdnka
foki
diish
dp o chovihan.
Charles G. Leland.
THE WITCH.
We
went one day
to a farmer's house
His wife was so Aveak she could scarce arouse
But when she saw we were Romnaany,

She spoke to us very
civilly,
And
said,
with
many
all
a gasp and twitch

of a wicked witch.
It is
" I'm dying
and
!
"Look
The
there
look there
is
coming now
!
evil
thing
!
dancing, I
vow
My God
At
Oh, help
me
"
!
and peeping
in
the open door, with a wicked grin,
Came
a great grey toad, with a hop and a hitch

cried the
"See there!"
witch
"
!
woman, "see
there s
my
Every day and hour

devilish creature
it is is
coming here
The
If I
It is
always near
first
throw
it
away, the
thing I
see,
jumping again and staring at me.

it
All night I hear
hiss
by the
ditch,
And
all
night long I dream of the witch."
Then we spoke together
in
193
Ilommany,
And
And And
The
told her at last
how
the thing
must be
" If you have shears, just bring them here,

-vvith
them a cup of
salt,
my
dear,
rich.
!
as sure as we're poor,
and you are
Gipsies will soon take care of the witch

like a cross,
it
So we tied the shears
you
see.
And
For
held the toad
and
couldn't get free

it
The charm was

it
so strong
its
but
tin;
gave a
cr^'
knew
fire
that
hour had come to die

it
In the
with the shears we gave
a pitch,
And
she threw the salt on

us
all
])uruing witch.
Then the lady gave

Ale and bacon
a treat,
plenty to eat.
And
ten-sliilling piece as
we went away
get their pay
ricli.
;
Since people
who work must

all,
And
it's
gooil for
be they poor or
If Gipsies
come when
they're plagued with a witch. C. G. L.
One
Clipsy
fine
day in
Eppinj,' Forest I
met a very
it
jolly younj;
woman, ami 1k:M
witli lier a conversation
which was,
jiriiici-
Iiowevcr, liardly to be called cheerful, Bince
turned
pally on toads
and snakes, with their
relations to witchcraft.
In illustration of their evil nature, she told
me
the story
which
have repealed very accurately
in
the foregoing'
94
I

have no doubt of
its
ballad.
truth, but
would
state, in
explanation, that toads take unaccountable fancies to certain

places, and even to certain people, and that tlie Gi])sies, who were well aware of this, ingeniously worked on the morbid In fact, the Romfears and superstition of the sick woman. many chi, after telling the tale, mentioned incidentally that " people who live in the woods as we do, out of doors all the time, see and know a great deal about such creatures and
their ways."
Not wishing to be -outdone, I signified my cordial assent, and promptly narrated a story which I had found originally in a strange and striking little ballad by a well-known There was once an old American poet, R. H. Stoddard. Gipsy woman, a witch. One day a gentleman going along the road accidentally trod on a great toad and killed it. Hearing a scream at that instant some way off in the woods, and after that a terrible outcry, he followed up the sounds, and found that they came from a Gipsy camp, and were lamentations over the old witch's child, who had just died very suddenly. On looking at the little corpse, he was horrified to find that it presented every appearance of having been
trampled to death.
and awe expressed in the brown were as amusing as the puzzled look which succeeded them. She did not doubt the but inquired " how could it be 1 incident, not in the least, not being able to fathom the principle by which a soul could be in two places at once. I regret that I cannot report the discussion which probably ensued that night, around some fire, over this story, and the explanations given of it by It is not impossible that the wiser and older fortune-tellers. the next Rommany Rye or Gipsy-speaking gentleman who goes to Epping may, if he touch on the svibject with due care,
credulity
The simple
Gipsy face on hearing
this little tale
be told the
95
name
of the infant thus killed,
and learn many
interesting details of the subsequent effect of the bereavement
on
its
mother.
in this
;
The word chovihdn

lated wizard,
poem should be
correctly trans-
and not witch
chovihCml being the feminine.
Tu
shan
cliune adrd o hev.
Mi
dâri,
kameli rani
Te waver
foki
shan o bdv,
Klin gdvla
tut' fon mAn'}-.
The moon,
soft-moving o'er the heaven,

;
My
And
darling, seems like thee

tlie
other folk are but

face
clouds
That hide thy
from me.
KAMMOBEN, TATTOPEN.
"
Mi shorn akouya," gllldas " Men buti ruzhior,

sar
i
yoi,
Te
chiriclor ad6i
gilior
Kair md,ndy
I
mdtchya
tern
SI
'dr6 o
p4nni suvv,
rinkeno
sosti
Awer i juva
ruvv
Leila kek pTrryno."

Giv6lla "
Wen
avdlP akdi
ShunAv k6k
I ruzhior
chir'clo gill
shan s6ved aldy

si shill
d6eyav
Awer Mi deari
tu shdn pa miro rikk,
pirryno
kalo heb, o nango teni,
Kenna shdn
rinkeno."
Janet Tuckey.
LOVE- TIME IS SUMMER-TIME.
" I
WANDERED
birds
forth alone," sang she,

floAvers
"
When summer
were young,
for me.
And
made merry songs
The summer woods among
And gaily, gaily danced the And balmy was the air
:
rill,
Rut there was something
failed
fair.
me
still,
Though
"
all
the land was
The blossoms
"
all
are dead," she sings,
That graced the summer-time

birds have spread their wings.
And summer
To
seek a softer clime.

is
The wintry sky
dark al)Ovc
:
The
silent
woods are bare
But thou
art near me, oh,
my
love,
And
all
the land
is fair."
Janet Tuckey.
SHAH.
"
AVALI
rya, I clicked the Shah,"
Panned ye puri Petul^ngerl.

"
An
pens
I jin
my
chAvo,
'
Ma
rakker
aja,
For
"
yuv's a
bitt' o'
a Rommanl.'
Mindy jins
sar sortis
o'
E6mmanis,
M6rnis te waver-t^mmeny
I jins lens
yakkor
an'
javomus,
pens you ad6vvo's a Eommanl.
" Gorgiki
yakkor shAn kushti
aja,
Ne penava
shan kek rlnkenl

the yakk the
o'
Awer mandy penava

Bitcher the dtid
o'
the Shah
Eommanl."
An' as m^ndy shuned lakis rakkerben,
Yeck
lav adr6 trin sos Ft4rsanT
It sims y6i piikkerdas tdchopen,
And
the Shah sos a
bitt' o'
a Eommani.
G. Leland.
Charles
THE SHAH.
" Yes,
my
master, I've seen the Shah,"
Said old
"
Dame
Petulengro to me.
son,
'
And
For
I says to
I
my
You
needn't talk.
know
all
he's a bit of a
Eommany.'
folk,
" I've seen
sorts of
Gipsy
Our own and them from beyond the sea

I
knows the
I tell
eye,
he's
and
knows the walk

a liommany.
you
somehow
" Other folks' eyes

I
may
be worry good eyes,

thai
won't say never
how
may be
But
this I say, that that Persian rye's
Have got
the shine of the
Kommany."
And
It
as she talked in her Gii)sy tongue,
With
just one Persian

if
word
in three,
seemed as
she rouldn't be wrong,
And
The
the Shah were a bit of a

described
true,
Kommany.
iiiciilent liere
is
every expression having

has been
Ifccn accurately retained.
No
cfFdrt
made
to intro-
200

and
duce Persian words in these

portion of
lines,
it
chances that the pro-
them
is
rather less here than usually occurs.

:
The
following, however, belong to that language

halt;
rye, Pers.
Avali, Persian
ray; rakker, Pers. rakidan; kush-ti, Pers.

^;^r,
Ichush; shuned, Pers. shun-klan; puri, Pers.

hibitative), Pers.
Ma
(pro-
ma;
Gorgiko (from Gorgio), Pers.
Jch'dja,
pronounced
Jchorja.
G ILL
I.
Of a Rbmmany
Tc a Goryio
chi
rye.
Si
mAndy
sos tiro chdvo,
Si tute SOS mlri dye,
Kam^ssa
d6l
mAndy
nil
a chumer 1"
!
" K(jkker,
ruzno rye
Awer mi sh6m Awer
k(ik tiro chAvo,
tute slian kcik miri dye

;
" Aduva's a waver covva
Avo, ml kushto rye
"
!
SONG.
If I were your
If
little
baby,
old,
you were
my mother
me
You
Avould give
sir,
a kiss,
my
darling
?-
" Oh,
you are
far too bold!
But
as
you are not

as I
my
mother,
1
But
am
is
not your son
" Ah, that
another matter.
I'll
So maybe
give you one
O PATTERAN.
"
Trin mla
ilriro
pAnni,
Trin mia duro gav,
Mi Utchdom
pAtterAni,
:
A
Man
cuttor lullo tuv
dickiUmi
.sig
ye covva
Sos Ucho Ilommani
rAkli lakis
shuba
Lis chliigerdas avn.
" Sos
pAndo pre
3<^
rukkor
Te
rudcriii adoi,
Mi
liltchdoin 'pr6
ye puvor
Ii(')mmani
dfii
])at6i.
SigAn yo
pirried,
mush
AmC'n a
te plrr^nT
sliul o'
Gorgios
JinAs len Koininaiii.
204
"
B^shdom Te
sar
aJoi ak6nya,
dsti
mdn
dikk
Sos kalo, mullo wongur,
Te pano, mullo
KAi shAn
I
i
chikk.-
dui
tarii.
Eomni
te o
Eom ?
Anduro
pari o
chumbor
Shdri ndsherdo adr6m,"
Ma
dusher, kameli, awer,
K6
yul
a-jlllo
shdn
Yiil hAtcli kdratti waver,
An' Litch a waver
tan.
I 'kavi'il bailor kuslito,
yag hatch
pali An,
Te
nikli'll
chinger pall
A
Ma
waver pdtteran.
'
pdtser k^kker dusher

fokis dush.
Fon waver
Sar rdkli
lela rdklo,
Sar mdnushi a mush.

Si kekker
yag
hotchcilla
'Pr6 'c6vo tern kenna,
Awer
adrd a waver
Si kushtidir aja.
Charles
G. Leland.
THE GIPSY SIGN.
"
Three
miles beyond the hamlet,
Three miles beyond the mere,

There hangs a shred of
scarlet
!
The Rommanis were here

Right well
I
know
the token
:
They
leave where'er they stray
Some Gipsy from

Mas torn
her kirtle
this strip
away.
"
It's fluttering in
the thicket,
And, as
I
I searcli
around,
find the
Gipsy
f()ot-i)rints
Upon
the mossy ground.
'Twas here the Gipsy lovers

Passed underneath the trees
;
Among
I'd
hundred Gorgios'
such steps as these.
know
206
"I
sit
EiVGUSH-G/PSY SONGS.
alone, sad-musinsr,
For yonder on the sward

1 see
a few white ashes.
And firebrands black and charred. And whither have they wandered.
The Gipsy and
Perhaps
his love
1
o'er far-oflF
mountains
With weary
feet they rove."
Oh, sorrow not,
my
darling
Oh, grieve not for the twain
To-night they'll rest them gladly,
And
pitch their tent again.

kettle's singing.
Again the
Again the
coals will shine,
And from
her skirt the damsel
Will tear another sign.
Then never weep,

So long as love
my
is
darling
true,
Each maid
shall find a lover, to
Each man a maid
woo.
And though no
Are blazing
kindly embers
close at hand.
Be
sure the
fire
glows cheerly
In some more favoured land.
Janet Tuckey.
RATTESKRI PlRENGRI.
Avo,
rya,
si
a puro cuvva,
Te
keniii'i
shan huti-dusta beslior
K6 man
'Pr6
i
sliundom puro dadas pukker
h(ifta Kiitteskri Pirengri.
Sa, }'(xv
p6ndas te sa
man
lis
shundoiu
8T tu lassa sc'jvahal apr6 lea,
Te aduvo SiWahal
H6fta Hdfta
ratti
si
i
poggered,
pirengri
;
wcUdn
ratti w(ill te
junger tutc
i
Ilufta ratti dikAsa
licfti.
Awer, rya
'i)re
hefta ratti,
;
Y^ck
o' len te
well t^ssAla tute
Wastor
pali tiro
men
diivclla
;
Ti' niun6lla sigan tiro gurlo
Te
adui luUena 'vrl aratti.

('
AAver, kai shundssa tut'
Idndy
(.'llARLKS
(j.
LkLAMi
THE SE VEN NIGHT- WALKERS.
Yes,
my
it's
master,
it's
a queer old story,

it
And
many
a year since last I heard
Since I heard the good old father telling

All about the Seven Night- Walking Spirits.
Thus he told the story

If
thus
to
heard
it
you took an oath upon those

the oath upon
will
spirits,
And
them should be broken,

you the walkers
;
Seven nights Seven nights

Seven nights
come
they'll
come, each night to wake you
you'll
always see the seven

night,
But upon the seventh
my
master,
By the seventh spirit you'll be strangled. Round your neck the ghost will twine his
Then upon your throat
Then they pass away
But,
you'll feel
fingers,
:
them pressing
into the midnight.

it ?
my
master, where could you have heard
Charles
G. Leland.
An old Gipsy once assured me that he had heard of the Seven Walkers, as described by Sir W. Scott in the oath
ENGUSH-G/PSY SOXGS.
sworn by
tlie
2O9
Whether
is
Romraany Hayraddin Maugrabin.
my
informant was mistaken or not
and
do not think he
would deceive me in
served
Eommany
matters
nothing
more
likely than that such a superstition should
have been pre-
among
Gipsies.
LEL TIRO KAMI
Si o
Rommani mush
si
kiulo,
Si a gry adr6 o stanya
Te
Eommani
chd,vo's b6ckalo,
Si a k4ni adr6 o
grdnya
trushilo,
Shan Ilummani chalor

Si levinor 'drd o
kitchema
L6la
E6mauo
chichi 'dr6 l^skro fern,
Shan
bdrveli G6rgior 'dre sar o tern.
Janet Tuckey.
HELP YOURSELF!
If the Gipsy
man
is
weary,
stall
:
There's a horse in the farmer's

If the
Gipsy child
is
hungry,
There's a hen near the granary wall

If the
Gipsy lads are
thirsty,
all
There's beer enough for them
And
if there's
nought
in the Gipsy's hand,
Tiiere are wealthy Gurgios in all the land.
Janet Tuckey,
D ELAB EN.
Sa miindy ghiom
adr^ the gAv,
Vas a boro rashai
A boro
Tu
rye
jin^ssa o mushis nAv
Te kairdas rakkerben, Te putchdas d^laben

For
o nAflopen ker,
:
A bunnerin there
Te penava
So
:
"
Yeck divvus
te vel
!
mAn
ta ni6r,
Sos kushto adrd a boro k6r

I
pakkers mi wdst 'dre miri putsi
Lelov' a ruppeny kalor avri,
An' pels
it alay.
Eye
dickella mc;
!"
Te
''
pArraco tute, Rye
pens he
An
rikkerdas stardy Anerjal,

kalo
To ak6vo
St tacho.
Rommani
chal.
Yuv
b6ngerdas kokero,
do.
Sims ryas to waver ryas
Charles G. Leland.
THE
GIFT.
As
was going along the town,
Came
a clergyman,
very great man,

I'll
You know him by name,
bet a crown
And
lie
preached like honey,
Askin' for
money
wanted some
For a Hospital
Home
And
said:
"If death ever should come
to
me,
I'd like to die there
respectaljly."
So into
my
pocket
my
hand
poke,
And And And

To
out a silver
dro])ped
shillin' I took,
it in,
" Thank
he.
The gent looked

sir,
at me,
you,
for
your
gift,"
says
this lierc black-faced
Kommany
2 14
It's
fact.
He bowed
himself, d'ye
know,
As gentlemen always
to gentlemen do.
Charles G. Leland.
This was the account wliich a Gipsy gave me of an honour which he had received. lu narrating the event, he acted it to life, with great spirit and intense satisfaction, ending witli a profound bow, in imitation of the one bestowed on him l)y the clergyman. It may be worth recalling on Hospital Sunday that Old Windsor Cooper, the Gipsy, once gave his only shilling to the good cause.
WAFROPEN
O'
THE BESHOM^NGROS.
S(5sKi adre de bitclierin k(5rs
Kai 'dovvo bdshomdugros besh

Butider wdfropens they kairs
K6
Te
divio juckals 'drd o wcsli.
'd6sta
chovany R6mmani
'pr(j
cli.il
St lino
for kairin kek,

sdsti jfd
Te
pari
de pdnni
Te mdndy peskro
Jin(5ssa
jiiiav ycck.
Matthew Kumlo, Rye,

his
So ndshe'd
Sos
lOllefl for
juva wfiver wen
chorinav a grai,
Te
Rut
Intciiered triu bush .stdripen.
bang's the busliom^ngros

miro puro inullo
as
d;id,
;;rai
zl
!-
'Prci
The mush
Si
hukk
il<-
avii
'.'id.
kek
adr(!;
Mat
Kfimlo's
2^^
ENGL/SH-GIPSY SONGS.
" Soski did
Si
mdndy kdkker pen mdndy jinned lis ? " Slmn

trdsh o' tachipen,
acdi
Mi shomas
For miro roin chored 'd6vo

"
grai.
Yuv
sasti slkk'rav
halihi
grai sos ch6red
"
!
Penned kek adui kun
Sos trdslier Idster k6kero, Eye, 0' ndsherin for a mush he'd
E.
mured
H. Palmeil
THE INJUSTICE OF JUDGES.
The judges come and

In yonder court
hold assize
?
but what's the use

sir,
They do more harm,
with their
loose.
lies
Than any mad dog broken
And many Ilommany
lads there be,
Who
And
ne'er a bit of harm. have done,

to jail, or over the sea
Are sent
I
my.sclf w'll
knows
sir,
of one.
You knows Mat
Lovell,
of course,
?
Who
lie's
lost his wife
some years ago

a horse,
so.
took for
stealin' of
And
liut
got three years for doin'

I
hang them magistrates,

father this
I
say
By my dead
The chap
Ain'l
ill
swears
as took that horse
away
the
siiirt tliat
Matthew wears
2l8
"
Why
If I
didn't I give evidence,
knew
that
"Ah,
there's the rub
I couldn't speak for the defence
'Cos
my
old
man had
done the job.

Jialibi,
"
He
oughter proved a
Said where he'd been arid what about
"
!
Poor
fellow,
ah
he durstn't try
They'd hanrj him if they found that
out.
E. H.
Palmer.
it
The
little
incident in this
poem
is
given almost exactly as
was
In
is
narrated by an elderly Gipsy

alehouse, in
woman
of the better class, in a
Cobham, Surrey, on the
fair-day 1873.
justice to the Gipsy, it should be stated that the last verse
added
to
her story from an entirely different source.
A NASHERIN COVVABEN.
T.iLE the shelni patrinya

Apiish o the kltchema,
MAndy rakkerdom
Tc
y<')i
puri Eosa,
asa.
rakkerdas sig
KAna-sTg yui pukkedas shukAro

"
Ma
rakdssa Romraanis
Ad6i avcUa o mCiscro,
Te
"
vcl beiiKUS shrnKil' Up."
Tc
vcl sliun^lla aniongy.
Si chiclii o Icstcr
pcm
"
:
"
Ma jin'sa
'Sis
tutc
mi rya
tlic
chinger yc sig of
tcm
" Mdn'y sliundom
mi dddas pen
or chin
;
lis
Tutc mrui
jtcnni.s
sli.-in
Te
buti foki
iiiishcrcd
Ajafcra rakkerin.
220
" Si chlndo adre the lilyor,
Te
si
kekena
lino 'vri
tute,
Len pdnderdnna
Pel
rakkerdv Rommani,
Pa
lakkeren, ara cliinnen

lil
A
"
adrd R6mmani.
a boro rya,
tal
Tu
si
Awer
kenna
tiro chib
Si a buti nAsherin
c6wa,
jib.
Muro kalo E6mmany
Charles
G. Leland.
A HANGING MATTER.
One morning
in
Epping Forest,
Beside the alehouse door,

I
talked with the Gipsy Rosa,
As
I often
had done
before.
JVhen she whispered quick and

" Don't speak in
softly
Rommany,
For there
is
a policeman,
Who
"
can hear as well as sec."
Hut
if
he hears us talking.
:
'
He will not understand " Why, don't you know, my

It's
master,
/
against
tii(^
law of the land
"
have heard
It
it
from
my
father,
may
not bo spoken or writ

liave
And many
swung on
the gallow;
it.
For nothing but talking
And it's still down in the law-book, And was never struck out, d'ye see % They may swing you off the cross-beam
"
For a
talkin',
much more
for a writin'
A
"
book
in the
Kommany.
And
thougli you're a gentleman truly,
Don't go in the way to be hung
For I say
it's
a hangin' matter,
This talkin' the
Eommany
tongue."
Charles G. Leland.
know whether
making
it
do not
the laws passed in
many European
also
countries
death to speak
if so,
Eommany were
tlie
extended to England, or
pealed.
wlu'ther they liave been re-
That the Gipsies themselves entertain

is
opinion
itself,
that their language
forbidden, invariably manifests

ladies,
even
if
talking
it
with gentlemen or
when
a policeman
approaches.
Many
:
whispered warning
a time have I heard the rapidly spoken " Ma rakka Rommanis, r^â 'd6i vella
comes a policeman " More than once during my researches I have received such a kindly-meant warning.
muscro
! I
Don't talk Ronuuany,
sir
there
TAN-ROMANESKRI
GILIOR.
TENT-GIPSY SONGS.
TRIX BITTI r6mMANI CHALS.

DV
Yeck
bitto Eupi'ni dial chiiryiu fip a riilck

t'
Clmry'd ap
truppo an' bcisned aprd a shock.

chury'd up
t'
Dui
bitti
R6mmanis
t'
rukk
apr(i
t'
Vdck sloinmenn
Trin
waver as bashed
churyin
till
shock.
bitti R/jm'ni chals
ap'.-ft
rukk
'vri
Slommerin
Trin
bitti
yijck a -waver
they poê?ed
'lay
the shock.
Kom'ni chalspd-Ued mOllo
the puv
Lt-ntcr
dye willed aldngiis ankaired to nlv.

.si;;
Welled
.\..s
anpuli a boro cliovihan

.in.
kiiircd .sar the ch/ivvos apojili jivv(;ii
liUDtcrs
dye hatched a
nlvviii, lunter.s
dye
lulled a ko.sh
\x\ del 'em all a kfirin for a kairin such a
bosh (dush).
ChornK.
Yijck bitto Koininani,
Dui
Trin
bitti iWinmajii,
bitti
Ilommani
chals.
THREE LITTLE
GIPSIES.
One little Gipsy climbed a tree, and how He climbed up the branches and sat upon
Chorus.
a bough.
little
One
little
two
little
three
!
oh
Three
little
Gipsy boys
Two
little
Gipsies climbed a tree, and

'tother one
how
One followed
Three
little
who
sat
upon the bough.
Gipsies climbed a tree, and

till
how
They followed one another

bough.
they broke away the
The
three
little
Gipsies
all
corpses did
lie
Tlu'ir
mother came along and began
for to cry.
There
came
great
conjuror
who saw them, ami

and
'em
then,
He
brought 'em
acrain.
all
to
life,
boys,
set
up
TEXT-GIPSY SONGS.
Their mother stopped a crying
stick,
22/
mother got
a
their
And
gave 'em
all
a whipping for a playing such a
trick.
This song was repeated to

blood), as
composed by a Lee.
me hy one of the James's (lialfHe gave it in a very imperfect
form
it did not differ materially from what is here Since writing the foregoing verses, I have received another version of the ballad, which will be found on the
;
but
printed.
following pages.
DESH TANI CHAVIS DURIKEN.
Desh What
tani ch4vis, all adr(^ a
row
welled
o'
lender tute shall know.
Y^ck tano chdvo was chivved up a rukk,

Polled to the puv an yuvs neck 'us broke.
Dui tano chAvo hatched apr6
his head,
Wery
sig anpall yiiv
was Idtchered dead.
Trin tano chdvo his levinor drank,
An" wery
sig anpall
was tdssered
in a tank.
Yeck tano chavo
dui tani chavis

!
Trin tani chavis they are gone
Shtor tano chavo killed himself lame,

Polled alay a coal-h6v an'
-w-as
never dicked again.

rain,
Pdnj tano chavo was dickin at the
An' wery
sTg anpall
mered
o'
thought upon the
hrain.
TENT-GIPSY SONGS.
Shov tano
clidvo
22g
tumbled
'pr6 a log,
Adui yuv was hotcliered

Shtor tano
to sindor 'dre the yog.
clu'ivis
pduj
tiini
chavis
Shov
tani chdvis
we must mourn.
Afta tano chivo prdstered from a dog,
An' wery
sig anpali
was ndshered
'dr^
fog.
Oitoo tani chavi was always at war,

Yick
dCwus
yoi
was ndshered
'diu the tav of lier guitar.
Enneah tano chavo was

An' wery
slg unpall
ch;ivo,
kellin'
with a match,
was mullered by a witch.

tall,
call.
Desh tano
IMayin'
yuv was booti
Punch and Judy was

Afta tano chavo
Enneali te desh
tdssered with his
oitoo tano chdvo

all
are dead.
wife,
life.
Then the Drab6ngro
kureil
hi.s
An' shook the tani chdvis
till
sar willi-d to
ail
Desh, enneah, oitoo, Afta chAvis
glad
Shov and pdnj

Shtor trin
I)rii,
cliAvis,
dancing
like
mad.
;
cliAvia,
standing on their heatis

lik<i
ycck chdvis, growing

tani chdviH, all in a
weeds.
Dcah
row
What
Welled
o'
lendy, kciina you know.
TEN LITTLE
GIPSIES' FA TE.
Ten
little
Gipsies
all in
a row
What happened
One
Fell
little
to
them
I shall let
you know.
Gipsy climbed up a
his
tree,
!
down, broke
little
neck
there lay he
The second
Gipsy stood upon
his head,
And
The
very soon after he was found dead.

thinl
little
Gipsy drank up
his ale,
And
very soon after
was drowned
little
in a pail.
One
little
two
three
little
Gipsies-
Three
little
Gipsies they are gone.
Tlie fourth little
Gipsy danced himself lame,
Fell
down
a coal-pit, and up never came.
The
fifth little
Gipsy was looking
at the rain,
And
died soon after of thought upon the brain.
TENT-GIPSY SONGS.
The
sixth tumbled over a log into the mire,
23
And
afterwards was burnt up to cinders in the
fire.
Four
Six
little
five little
six
little
Gipsies
little
Gipsies
we must mourn.
The seventh
little
Gipsy ran from a dog,

fog.
And
The
very soon after was lost in a

eightli little
Gipsy was always at war.

one day in the strings of her guitai\
And she was hanged

The ninth
little
Gipsy was playing with a match,

l)y
And
very soon after was killed
a witch.
Tlie tenth little Gipsy,
who was
very, very
tall, call.
Playing Punch and Judy was choked with his
Seven
little
eight
little
all
nine
little
Gipsies
Nine
little
Gipsies
arc drnad.
Then
the doctor whipped his wife,

sliook the little Gipsies
till
And
they
ail
came
to
lil'i'.
Ten, nine, eight, seven Gijjsics

Six, five Gipsies
all
glad
dancing
like
mad.
Pour, tlirce Gipsies standing on their hcad.s;
Two, one Gipsies growing
like weeds.
232
TENT-GIPSY SONGS.
Ten
little
Gipsies
all
in a
row
What became
of them,
now you know.
ballad originally
These songs are simply variations of an old American known as " John Brown's Ten Little Indian Boys," and which has heen changed in England to " Ten
Little
Nigger Boys."
THE RAUNEY ON THE TO BEE.
There's a rauney
jessin
on the tober,
;
There's rye jessin after her
He would
Would
del all
if
the louver
In his putsey
the rauney
liiiu.
beshtolay with
:
He
If
pens
"
My
dear rauney,
You
For
sliall
have plenty of vonggar

jfs.s
you w
ill
with
mandy
will
in the
sarlow
wo
;,'et
Rumoured,
for that will be tatchey.'
THE LADY ON THE ROAD.
There's a lady going on the road,

There's a gentleman going after her
He would
In
give
all
the
money
with
his pocket if the lady
Would
" settle
:
down
"
hiin.
He says " My dear lady, You shall have plenty of money If you will go with me
;
For
in the
morning we
will get
(nice)."
Married, for that will be right

Tliese songs, one of "
which has already been published in
The English Gipsies and their Language," were repeated for me by a Gipsy woman, whose husband, a Gorgio, wrote them
out at her dictation.
the spelling.
This will explain the pecuUarities in
GILLI OF A
ROMMANY JUVA.
Die
at tlie Gargets,
!
The Gargers round mamly

Trying
to lei
my
nieripon,
My
I
meripon (meriben) away.
will care (kair) uj to iny cliuugs (cliongs),
Up
to
All for
my chungs my liap})y
in rat,
racier (raklo).
My mush is lellcd to .stunibon To sturriboii, to sturribon,
(staripcii).
My mush
To
is
lelled to sturribon,
the tan where
mandy
gins (jins).
A GIFSY WOMAN'S SONG.
Look
at the Gorgios,
The Gorgios around me,

Trying
to take
my
life,
My
Up
All
life
away.
I will
to my knees, my knees in blood, for my happy boy.
wade up
to
My
To
liusbaud's ta'en to prison,

prison, to prison
;
My husband's
To
ta'en to prison.
the place of which I know.
PRONUNCIATION.
PRONUNCIATION.
Rommanj^
In reading or pronouncing English

in this
as given
:
book, the following rulos should be observed

is
or a
pronounced either
like aiv in such English
words as law, raw, and saw, or with a modification of

the same sound as heard in father.
Such words
as rdtfi
(night) and pdnni (water) are frequently but incorrectly
])ronounced
I'arty, parnj',
on the same principle which
induces the uneducated man, whether English or American, to extend
the a to ar.
(7
In
nrali
(yes),
and
its
abbreviati<m dvo, the

characteristic manner.
is
strongly accented, in a very

it is
In julsh (half, near, itc),

like " in
commonly pronounced
is
wash.
In
most cases a
sounded as
Aiiiii'r (to
Ai/'iiiirv't
in An/i, mh/, ulr, n/ar, tVc, thus
bring),
pronounced as
(tlial),
in
Aim.
or ndiluimi
as in adijit.
first
Aldi/ (down).
in nlUy, iho
In this
in
word the
A///.
liai'c.
is
sounded as
second as
Avrl, a as in aloe, or in
.(
in
rhdm (boy)
ia
sounded as
iji
liave,
aud
is sliort.
240
PRONUNCIATION.
hard, or like
before all letters except
e
is is
Ic,
and L
Ch
the same as in church.

is
Chal
often pronounced like chuL

;
E is generally pronounced as in inen, hen

French
;
and
e as in
ie like
au in
lay.
is
almost invariably hard,

it
but in a few words,
such as sig (quickly, Sec),

sound, as in South
has sometimes a very soft

after
r.
German
It
then
is
between
g and
y.
e.g..,
Ch. In a few words
plochta, a
cloak
hacht,
luck;
chnshto
;
{i.e.,
kushto),
good; hochaben
{liockahen),
falsehood
hochter (hokker), to
e.g.,
jump
ch has the
same
sound
sound as in German
Buch.
But
for this
h.
most Gipsies are rapidly substituting the hard
is
pronounced as in English or in Hindustani.
In
the middle or at the end of a

Enf^lish dg
Avith
V.
word
it is
sounded
like the
e.g.,
laj
(ashamed), which exactly rhymes
Madge.
Not
is
to be confounded (as Gipsies often do) with
u or w;
here pronounced as in English.

;
W, as in English
should not be confounded with

to
v.
Most Gipsies, however, treat v and

if,
as the same.
u.
Like 00 short, or the Italian u

î'oo-de^
TJ
e.g.,
wilder (door),
pronounced
(not wood-er).
unaccented gene-
rally follows the English pronunciation.

0.
In the word " Rommany," o has a peculiar sound,
PRONUNCIA TION.
between
in
24
Roman and u
iu rum.
The same
is
the
case in dovo, adOvo, ado eel,
and
(as
alconyo,
which are pro-
nounced much hke duvvo

adduvvel.
in
dove), 'adduvvo,
and
This rule
is
far
from being generally followed,
but
it
appears to be correct and ancient.
Some
confusion
prevails
among
different tribes in the pronunciation of
rov (to weep), sou (sleep), but they are generally given
as ruv
and
suv.
Covva
is
like cover
lovey,
is
without the r
final.
Lovva (money), often called

/,
has the same sound.

in
or
I,
is
like ec in
/,
^,
see,
or
pronounced as
French
or Italian.
in
without the lowj accent takes the Sdund

it, ill,
most cases of the same vowel in

is
jnn
but
it
never
like
in hy, or the
same
letter in hi<jh,
except
in chi (a
woman).
serve as a guide in reading liomis
The following may

many,
it
being Ijorne in mind that the 00
not so
much
I)rolonged as the juxtaposition of
two
letters in
full
English
generally indicates, nor

Oil tute
loot y
jin.s
1718
i.s
the air fpiiie so

krdco,
as in saiv:
miro
rye
rye.
meero kawko,
l(i.ster
tut(t
jins
nav.
tooty Jitis IcKlcr into {av as in have).
Y(5ck divvus yiiv pirried sir
le.ster
gry.
Yek div-vu8 yuv
pen-' yd saivr tester gry.
Fon
yick'eti
waver gdv.
Foil yclêtly wdivver gdv.
242
Aprd kaliko
PROIÛNCIATION.
ratti sa's
mAndy
sos jallin adr^ o wesh,
muskro dui bori rukkor, man'y shunedom a boro wafodo

giidli
;
te
te
chommany
dias avri
pelled alay apr6 o
puv pash o
mandy
c6vva.
a boro sliellaben, sims a b^ngalo

:
Penava m4iidy
" Sa's d6vadoi
"
Mdndy
lis
sos
buti trdsheno.
Awer
;
o covva aiikaired to liakker and
kell sims dlvius
te
mdndy viom
(a
an' Idtched
sos a
tano ratti-chiriclo that had
p(^lled avri
fon listers tan.
Pronunciation.
{eeko like ico
K-pray
as father)
hawAtô
calico)
rawty, saws ?a?idy sus (us as in
fuss) jawlin (aw short as in falling) adrai/ o wesh, muskro

(as in
musk) doo-ee bovee rookov, man'y s/iooedum a hovo

;
z^âfodo ffud-\ee
te
chwnmany
pelled alay a^ray o poov
posh o ma7idy te dee-ass avree a boro shel-laben, sims a

beng-a\o cuvva.
Penawva mandy
"
Saws duv-ya-doy
"
]
Aive-wer o cuvva on-cared to hocker and kell sims div'ms

te
mandy vee-ome and

(Broken
latched
lis
(as
in this) sus a
taivno ra2vty-chirry-\do that

tdn.
dialect.)
had
2)elled
awree fon lesievs
The reader
will find the following outlines of a
Eom-
many Rhyming
of
Dictionary, compiled by Miss Tuckey,
much
use in acquiring the pronunciation and accents

It
of the
language.
embraces both the perfect and
" allowable" rhymes.
Charles G. Leland.
D C 1' O N A R Y
I
B
Aja, thus, wjain,
Heb,
Jib,
the sky.
Asa, aho.
BSl,
Club, the tongue.
friend, companion.
f/ivc.
lanr/uai/c.
Da,
Ha,
cat,
D
DQ(1,
lii/ht.
.la, fjo.
Kamasa, thou lovcst. Kenna, now. Krallissa, a queen.

Mollasa, never mind.
Piiramlsa, a fable
JSa, all, so.
Tud, milk.
Adre,
-A
in, inside.
pre, up, above.
Slioro apre, to praise
Uora, an hour, a watch. Ora, a penny,

KaniOra, a room.
A lay,
Tulu,
down.
hclou:
Tuley,
Yora, an eyy.
Atlovva, that, Ihoae.
Atri'isli,
U
afraid.
HiiHh,
Covva, a
thinr/.
a fiddle.
Ixivva, money.
KokIi, a stick.
I'&hIi, half,
mar.
Ddnya, a
root, teeth.
YUitih, to tit, rflinaiii.
Ordnya, a yranarii. Kuoya, a snrk, ha;/.

Ildnyn, a rred, rod.
Stdiiya, a slahle.
DckIi, ten.
1'chIi, to
shine. icood, forest.
Wtnh, a
K&na, -when. M&nnn, to forbid.
IKitch, to stay, remain.
Latch, to find.
244
DICTIONARY.
Kani, a hen.
Panni,
neater.
Dush, (lush, trouble. Mush, a man or mouse. Rush, clean.

Trush,
thirst.
Rani, a lady.
Sani, soft, silken.
Tani, young, small.
Akai, here.
Avail, yes.
Bai, a bough.
of.
Avrl, away, out
Chi, a
firi?"'-
Bar veil,
rich.
Dilleri, clever.
Dye, a mother. Gry, grai, a horse.

Kai, where.
Ketteui, together.
Kri,
an
ant.
Nai, a finger-nail.
Parakai, <Ais wa?/,
/icre.
Mee, mi, a mile. Manushi, woman.

PI, to drink.
Plrr^-ni,
Rashai, a clergyman.
Rye, a
(femi-
lord,
gentleman.
to /e? 2/o?<r icye,
siceetheart
Soniiakai, gold.
nine).
AVye, due
to get
Rinkeni,
Asti
sT,
prettii, beautiful.
your due.
it is to be.
Tacho
si,
all right.
Chichi, nothing.
Sumeli, fragrant.
Suneli, handsome.
Hotchewltchi, a hedgehog.
Nitchi, peevish, cross.
Bitti, little.
Sunari, golden.
SI, is.
Zi, the sold,
mind, heart.
Chltti,
little.
Buti, much, very.

Dili, hearty, cordial.
Gilli,
Nutti, nuts.
Tute, you.
Dori, thread, rope.
a song.
Killi, to dance.
LuUi, red.
Mili, pleasant, kind.
Milli, together, mixed.
Nlli, blue.
Kori, a thorn.
Shukori, sixpence.
Akoi,
ShiUi, cold.
/icre.
Dui, two.
Adoi, there. Covakoi, this here.

Dovadoi, that
Fergoi, a
fig.
Mui, the face, mouth. Rooy, or roy, a spoon.
there.
DICTIONARY.
Goi, a sausage, pudding.
Patoi,
245
Ajal, quick.
a Gipsy
sign.
Anerjal, opposite.
Yoi, she.
Chal, a
/a(/,
felluvx
Dral, through.
Ferri, to please, entice.
Hal,
Pal,
<o ea<.
gro.
Kerri, at home.
PIrri, free, to walk.
Jal, <o
brother, friend.
Pashajal, neighbouring.
Chavi, a
girl.
kettle.
Shimal, the north.

Sovahal, an oath, to swear.
Trushdl, a cross.
Kekavi, a
lAvi, words.
Nevvi, new.
S&wi,
to
laugh.
Del, to give.
Ferdel, to forgive.
Kingri, a church.
Viingri,
Kel,
to
dance.
a waistcoat.
Lei, to get.
K
liak, luck.
Padcl, across.
V{:\,tofall.
Shell, to call, whistle.
Lock, sluulow.
Well,
vel, to come.
Nak,
the none.
liongh.
Shock,
Ti'ilak,
Dil,
a im/(.
behind.
eye.
Dill, i/uick.
Jil, to go.
Yak, an
Chlkk,
Dikk,
dirt, earth.
Kill, butter, cheese.

Lil,
6(>oA-,
Icier.
tol'Mjk, sec.
Flick, clevci; adroit.
Nill,
brook.
Shill, cold.
Ki'k, not,
ii'i.
Kikk,
jrid,.
D(Jll,
declivity.
VY-ck, one.
Lull,
rf<i, ^/t yo/A'

ifi'nf.
fin egg.
Mukk,
Iliikk,
to let, allow, leave.

(t
Mol,
tree.
Tuk, tad.
M
L
ChAm, the chcrk. Ja kiini, f/M slowly.

K&in,
love, the sun.
Aglal,
Agdl.
\'^^"''-
^ ^
ShCttn, the evening.
246
Fern, the hand.
DICTIONARY,
T6n,
to say.
Pem, a thing. Tem, country. Kim, n

side-tent.
Shillopen, the cold.
Wen,
the ivinter.
Adrin, in, inside, within.

Bin, to
sell.
tSim, like, resembling.
Chin,
to cut.
Adrom, away. Drom, a road, a way.

PIshom, honey, a bee. Kom, a Gipsy, a husband. Shorn, / am, we are. Viom, / came.
Chin, a blade.
Jin, to knoio.
Kin,
to buy.
Kin, the edge.

Sidderin, drowsy.
Trm,
three.
N
Blan, wind.
Chovihan, a witch. Drovan, quickly.

Glan, in front
of.
Budero, aged.
Barvelo, rich.
Bockalo, hungry.
Gran, a granary. Kan, the ear. Del kan, to listen (give ear). Patteran, a Gipsy sign.
San,
silk.
Chavescro, a
Dinnelo,
little
boy.
Chiriclo, a bird.
silly, foolish.
Dov
Safriln, yellow.
what is that. Dukkero, sad. Kanavo, half-blood.

e lo,
Saran, done, finished.

Sarishan,
Kinelo, tired.
do.
how do you
are.
Morriclo, a cake.
Shan,
is,
Niishedo, hung,
Piikeno, quiet.
lost.
Sigan, quickly.
PIrryno, sweetheart.
Shyan, perhaps.
Delaben, a
gift.
Sapeno, wicked,
like,
i.e.,
snake-
from
sap, snake.
Kalopen, darkness, blackness.
Suvalo, infirm.
Kammoben,
love, pleasure.
Kellapen, dancing.
Trash eno, frightened. Vaccasho, a lamb.
Len, them, to them. Miraben, life.
Waffedo, bad, vHcked.

Avella, he, she,
Brishinella,
it
Mullopen, death.
I'un,
it
comes.
sister.
rains.
DICTIONARY.
Pello, fallen.
247
PIrdo, half-breed.
ShiHlo, a rope.
Jillo, gone.
Sliillo, cold.
Pordo, full.
Wardo,
caj-t,
carriage.
well, ripe.
Kushto, good,
Mishto, glad.
GuUo,
the throat.
WIsbto,
lijj.
Lullo, red.
MuUo, dead.
Tullo, fat.
Matto, drunk.
Tatto, hot, clever:
Balo, pig.
Avo,
lazi/.
yes.
Kalo, black, dark,

Jfppo, a patch.
Trfippo, the body.
Ch^vo, boy, youth.

Savo, who.
R
Bar, a stone. Bur, a garden. Edr, a
Ch6vihano, a wizard.
Pano, while. Sano, soft. Tano, young, small.
.lafro(ra), such, as.
pound
(20s.)
Char,
gra-ss.
Gogemiir, a swamp.
Kar, company
kdr, do
Katilr,
rail.'!,
kair
lis
in
it
in company.
Wufro, bad.
IJcTO,
fence.
a ship.
Pukar, aloud.
Sar, all.
Kcrro, done, finished.

Ocero, a person.
Miro, my.
Sanusar, always, forever.

Sliukar, easy, slow.
Soliviir,
a bridle.
Pino, free, afoot.

Tiro, thy.
Sovar, sleepy.
TuHHar,
to
cmforl.
wcjit.
Hhirro, sour.
Utur, the
Vzar, by chance.
COiTO, nip.
Wnfudur, bad.
IVirodf-r, larger.
I'.uiider,
Duro, far.
I'uro, old.
more.
Ki'rdo, dtine, completed.
Kiiir, to inake, do.
MOnlo, dead.
I'urdo, hiildcn.
Ker, a house. Mtr, to kill, strike.
246
Kekker, no, never. Nikker, to swallow.
Rikker,
to keep, hold.
DICTIONARY.
Anner,
to bring. to bite.
Dan'er (dander), Puder, to blow.
Sikker, to show, help, secure. Sikker, sure, certain.
Ruder,
to clothe.
Wuder, a
Kcssur,
door.
Chokker,
Hockcr,
to shoe.
to care. to
to
jump.
Kusser,
adorn.
Hokker, Nakker, Makker,

Pogger,
to carry.
to stray.
Nisser, to swallow.
Pessur, to pay.
Tasser, to droivn, choke.
"WQsser, to throiv, fling.
Laster, to find.
to defile. to break. to speak, talk. to yell.

to
Rakker,
Shokker,
Stakker,
climb into.
Praster, to run.
Waster,
to
hold, handle.
Dukker,
Lucker,
to tell fortunes. to hide. to nevjh.

to tell, ask.
Kister, to ride.
Lester, his, to him.
Nucker, Pukker,
Shukker,
to shake.
Bor, a hedge.
Suker, to xcarm.
Chore,
to steal.
Cor, the edge.
Duter,
Luter,
to rise {the sun).

to steal.
Levinor, beer, ale.
Mor,
to kill,
murder.
tail.
Jotcr, together.
Giller, to sing.
For, a feather,
Shtor, four.
Huller,
to carry.
DQr, far.
Giir, the thunder.
Luller, to yell at.

Miller, to mix, adulterate.
MuUer,
Kiir, to fight.
to kill.
Kfir, outside.
Shiller, to shiver.
Tiller, to hold.
Lur,
to steal.
ShQr, the beginning.
Bosher,
to
play the fiddle.
Bosher,
to bark.
S
Jas, he, she,
it
Dfisher, to vex, grieve.
went.
Kosher, Nasher,
to beat.
Ja
palass, go behind.
to spoil, lose.
Kass, hay.
Las, he, she,
it
Trasher, to frighten.
got, took.
DICTIONARY.
Leilas, he, she,
it
249
took.
Mas, meat.
Nakelas, was
silent ; t/Hv
Av, come.
Doe'ydv, river, sea.
ndkelas, he never spoke.
Pendas,
/tc,
she, it said.
Pyass, fun, a game. Syass, shade, shadow.

Tas, a cup.
Gav, a town, village. Kur'hav, a proverb. Lav, a word. Nav, a name.

Si'iv, to
laugh.
Vas,
Lis,
he, she,
it
came.
Tuv, thread.
it.
Chiv,
to
put.
Rommanis, Gipsy; rakkrr R6mmanis, to talk Gipsy.

Kettenus, together.
Hev, a
hole,
window.
'
Giv, wheat.
Jiv, alive.
Riv, to put on (clothes), to

dress.
Kurimus, a fight.
P^tsei-us, possible, credible
Siv, to sew.
from
trust.
falser, to
believe,
Tiv, to knit.
Yiv, the snow.
Pus, straw.
Fuvius, afield.
Sob, 8U8, was, wtre.
Puv, afield, the ground. SQvv, <o swim.
Tuv,
<o
smoke.
to wcf/>.
K(iw,
lUtt, blwjd.
Y(iv, Ac.
Tit, total.
Pit {cant ^),
foot.
Shove,
Sovc,
six.
/<:(;>.
Tom-i'iit, foot.
(o
to
Skat, k4t, cut.
Tove,
wash.
GLOSSARY.
a lay,
|
acdi, here.
alay,
a\h,
V doion.
acoi, here.
acovo, this.
Alisa, Alice (a propa' name).
adduvel, that.
amdudi, we,
us.
adenna, then.
adoi,
tliere.
amdn, aviong.
amdndi
&o, on.
dui, we two.
addvo,
adr5,
tliat.
\
.
anUva, / bring.
anerjal, over against.
adr<?e,
adrin, in, intidr.
Anglaterra, England.
Qakair, to begin ^
adruin, avtay.
addllo, adai, that.
dnner, to bring.
anncrela,
finpiili,
it
aduata, enoutjh.
dfta,
bnngs.
nen.
in front
back again.
agal, before,
agal).
(
"J**'
J'
'
of
(jessed
anviaH,
fip, lip,
came on
upon.
(iitrf.)
o (often pleonfiilir, a
kiiHLti
nji'i,
a|((5pli,
buck again.
.'
" ijood
aruti,
by night.
thug, ahn, at.
tnouijh").
ana, 10 alto.
aitllrla, o,
tutti,
a-jiUo, gone.
nkdi, here,
woulil hare,
had
to.
"''""y*!
lUlid,
can, potîble.
it
nlone.
dati 81,
akunjro,
ran
bt.
252
atcb, to remain, stay.
atrdsh, afraid.
GLOSSARY.
bar, hedge.
bar,
a garden.
atukno, sorry.
atut, across.
;lv,
bar, a
pound.
stone.
bar,
here.
come ; avakdi, come

come.
bari, baris,
a snail.
avali, yes.
baro, great.
b.irvelo,
i,
avava,
loill
rich {fem.
avava, / come.
avdlla (vela), he,
she,
bau,
(
bra ther.
or
it
is
baw,
b^v,
'
coming.
avdllin, they are cominrj.
\
J
loind, breath. air, vn
bavel, oavel,
av^nna, they come.

aver,
bavelo, windy.
'
a comer, one who comes.
\
)
wind, air.
avessa, thou contest.
bdvol,
avo, yes.
avri,
bavol, dust.
of.
away, out
baz, back, behind, open.
awali, yes.
beeno, born. beng, the devil, flame; o pure
awer, but.
bang, the old
devil.
B
ba, brother, friend.
^'^"g^^'''
!
devilish.
beng^skro,
bai (by), sleeve, bough.
bdngis, the devil.
babalo-dye, grandmother.
bengis his
zi,
the devil in his heart.
babus, grandfather.
bak, luck. bakelo, hungry.
berk, breast.
h6ro, ship, boat.
bâh, to
sit.
bakeugro, shepherd.
bakro, lamb, sheep.
baktalo, lucky.
besh, a year.
beshava, /
sit ;
beshela, he
sits.
beshdas, he sat.
hiWor, hair;
hairy.
ha,l,
a hair; balno,
beshduii!,
I sat.
he, she, or it sat
sits, to sit.
sit.
bashed aldy,
beahdlla, he
down.
bdllovas, bacon.
balo, a pig ; balor, pigs.
balo,
beshallan, they
a pig, a hog.
beshermdngro, one who
sits,
baulo,
balor, pigs {policemen).
judge or magistrate.
beehin', sitting.
GLOSSARY.
b&hor
(besbya), years.
sit
253
bosh, a fiddle, to bark, noise.
besbtolay, to
bibi, aunt.
down.
boshom^ngro, a fiddler, a fiddle.

boshto, a saddle.
brishin, '
)
bikin, to
sell.
sell.
\
)
rain.
bikinava, / do or will
bisa, poison
brisbiudo,
made from
beans.
briino, brown.
bisser, to forget.
bud, after.
buddika, a shop.
assize
bitcher, to send, to cmil.
bitcberin-kdrs, police
courts.
or
budeskro, a successor.
bukko,
liver.
bitcherin-mushor, mayislrates.
bitcher paddl, to transport.
bitti,
buller, to boil.
bullerin, boiling.
bit,
little,
small (fern.)
lower
{voice).
buuner,
to shape, build.
bittider,
le-'^s,
fainter, smaller.
biinnerin, building.
biino, boino, proud.
bitti-muUya,
liitto,
tjoblins.
but, very, much, often.

buti, very,
bit,
Utile, small.
many.
bivdn, raw, uncooked.

blan, wind.
b<jckali>,
butider, more. butidosta,

plenty.
hungry.
butadusta,
boiiger, to duck, bend, bow,
dodgr
Ijutiengro,
a workman.
b(5ngo, bent, bowed, crooked,
butsi, buti, work.
bongo, unwilling.
booti, very.
C
'cai,
bor, a licdgc.
H(irga\',
har,
i.e.,
acai.
(
Walton
{proper name),
Cuinlo, Lovcll
c.1in8,
proper name).
literally llrdyi or Wall-town.
he loves.
boried,
it
wciglud.
caulo, unwilling.
cdvacai,
.' )
Iniro, great.
.,
}
)
this, here.
bOrodir, greater.
boro'in, growing.
ciivncoi,
chai, chi, girl.
boro-pdnni
tcin, the
south
(lit.
chairuM (ciiyruB), ^
'
"
)
'
,.
I
line.
orran-liiu<l).
chiriiH,
h'ltil.
Bori kiU-heina, grand

l>uri
pfirii,
rlial, lad,
(tipsy.
the ocean,
the great
cbalava, / touch.
cb;llor, liuls, Gipsies.
UHiier.
254
chain, cheek, leather, tin.
GLOSSARY.
chinnin peggor, cutting
chiricli,
skave>-s.
chdmor, cherries.
a bird (fem.)
chamyor, cheeks.
char,
chiriclo,
to
or
chorl,
pour
out,
vomit.
char, grass.
chirus
a bird (masc.) ; Rommauy chiriclo, the Gipsy bird

i.e.,
)
the ivatcr-wagtail.
^'"-^'}
chiriclor,
charava,
2orap.
touch,
vex,
cover.
cbiriklya,
[also
chyrus),
heaven.
charo, a dish, plate.

chavali, boys, mates.
time.
chitti, nothing, trifling, little.
chdvey, child, girl.
chiv, to put, place, fix, throw ('vri
chdvo
(in.), boy, child.
the chiv).
chiv aprd,
to
chdvl (fem.)
chiiv'or, children
put up, throw up.
i.e.,
chav-o.
chiv avri, to put out or away.

chivava, / do, or will, put,
<i:c.
chav-I, chdv'or).
chavorli, here, children
mates.
chivdlla, he, she, or
it
puts,
d-r.
cbdvori, chicken.
cheirus, time.
cheirnsses, times.
cbivved,
chido,
]P^t> placed.
boots, shoes.
chdkka,
chorus, time.
chi, girl (pron. chj^).
chommany,
;
something.
cbone, the moon.
chib, chiv, tongue
boro apre the
chong, a knee-joint,
cbor, grass.
hill.
chib, boastful {great on the

tongue).
chore, a thief.
fie.
chichi, nothing,
chori,
ôor {fem.)
,
cbikk, ashes, dirt, sand.
chorin, thieving.
sti tck,
chidom,
laid.
put,
placed,
choro, poor {masc.
chorredo, not of pure Gipjsy blood,

stolen.
chidom, me, I put.

chin, to cut, to write.
chovahaui, a witch.
china mangri, a
chingdri,
letter.
choveno, poor.
chovihan(i), a wizard.
a row, a
to
quarrel.
cbinger, through. chinger,

tear,
to
chovveny,
scold.
to
pt^^'''
pron.
chuv-
veny).
chufa, petticoat, skirt.
quarrel, tear.
chingaror, sptarks.
chukker,
to hit together.
GLOSSARY.
chukkered, shod, hooted,
cbukko(a), coat (chaho).
cutteieugeris,
cuttor,
bit.
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bits, pieces.
chuma, to kiss. chumbo, chumba, a hill. chumbor, hills. chumer, to kiss. chumor, kisses. chumya, l\ churameny, somethimj.
chunger,
to spit.
B
dad,
-J
diidas, \ a father.
dado,
dad&ko, or daddskro, dai, a mother.

das, gave.
fatherly.
cburelo, heardtd.
de, the.
deari, dear.
de'as,
chureno, poor.
churi, a knife.
given, gave.
(English), pure,
accurate,
churya, knives.
churider, poorer.
deep
correct (language).
churdo,
chdrredo,
^
(
a quadroon, not of pure Gipsy blood,

alsoa poor person
stolen.
;
deep-diru8, deeper, purer.

deepodiridest, deepest, purest.
del, to give.
(chur'do), (
chdrredo,
ddlaben, a gift.
del-aprd, to give up, to read.
dell, to kick.
chury,
to climb.
chdrried, climbed.
chdrro, a ball,
i.e.,
a round
object.
dulled, done, draum.

ddllln, hitting
di^'llin
chuvveno, poor.
or kicking. of him.'
ch6vveny,
cbdvvani,
} )
lescro, ^'agivin'
"
ddll o[nb, to give up, to read.
cooDJerncHa, sccrtl.
coor, lofijkl, beat, strike
;
d6tme, then.
onra-
dc, gave.
ben, a blow, nft'jht.
donb,
bl'tnkcU,
tr ;
deKblOri, lS/(fHfr.
cuppoa,
ihinffs,
clothe-^,
dick, to
see.
li>iiking-gl<i.is.
;
iih/i.
dickauxSngro, u
dickavit,
avit,
*coTo, thin {/or iicovo).

c<}vvii,
to
see
tii
MUfti dick-
thiu'j (ciivva).
yon should harr

saw.
seen.
covvabeii, nn incident.
cnifni,
ciirro,
d'.ckdii, si'rn.
a button, a turnip, n nnH. a cup, n tankard.

bit,
(lickdiitn, /
lick kfilo, to look
bl'ukor glum.
c6ttcr, a
drop, rwj.
dlcklo, a handkerchief.
256
dicktum, /
saiv.
GLOSSARY.
dud,
light.
dick pali, remember (look hdck).

dikk, to wait, to
dil,
dili,
see.
dud, a shooting dud, moonlight
star.
;
taley tbe dud,

;
ivish ; dill, quick.
hy moonlight
daylight.
div'sko dud,
hearty, cordial.
dilleri, hold, clever.
dud-bar, diamond.
dinnelo, a fool, stupid.

diplus,
dudikabin,
inahing
clean
a dimple.
")
.
sweep of everything in the

house, under pretence ofjjro-
dipplor, dimples.
divio,
,.
.
pitiating
species
the
planets
divius,
f-
mad, insane.
'
of
fraud
often
divvus,
divvus, the
a day ; o boro divvusko day of judgment.

river.
practised hy Gipsy women.

dui,
tioo.
{i.e.,
doeyav, a stream,
Vloi's, there is.
dui-dash
dui-tas),
a cup and
saucer.
dood (dud),
light.
duiyav, a stream, river.
dood (dud), a month.

ddrdi, see there
!
dukk, pain.
dukk,
spirit.
to tell
dori, rope or twine.
dukker,
fortunes.
dori, string, cord.
dukker,
to
pain, grieve, chide.

grief, trouble.
dovalay,
down
what
there.
is that 1
dukkerben,
dov' e
lo,
dukkerin, telling fortunes.

dukkeriu', tempting.
d(5vo (diivYo), that.
drdb, -poison, a drug.
dukkeripen, fortune-telling, an
augury.
drabbed, poisoned.
drdbber,
to poison.
dukkero, sorroivful.
dull, a declivity.
drabdngro, a doctor, druggist.

'drd,
in {for adr^).
drfe his
drom, in his own way.
drom, way, road. drom, dromus,

,
)
dum, back. dumbo, a hill. dumo, hack.

dur, far,
lo7ig, deep.
}
)
way, road. "
durmi, among.
durodirus, longer, farther.
dtish, ^
dromya, roads.
droppi, a drop.
harm,
hard treatment.
injure, grieve.
drtimos,
driim,
dush,
sorrow.
a roadway.
diisher, to
harm,
GLOSSARY.
d\ia\ierir\, dificult
257
oxit of.
ma
dusher,
ion,
from, away,
dont harm,
dusberi, hard.
don't grieve.
fotografeugro, a p)hotograiiher.
Duvel-nasherdo, God-forsaken.
duvels-pdnni, rainhow.
gdd, a shirt.
dya, oh, viothcr

dye, o mother.
garadom, / hid.
gargera
e.g.,
Gorgios,
wh ite
dyeskri dye, grandmother.
people, not Gipsies.
gdv, a town, village.
E
engri,
gavdDgero, ro,
when added to a qualifying word signifies a thing,

is
gavdngro,
a policeman.
gilver, to hide.
while engro
rally to
applied gene-
gavior, villages, towns.
an
giiv-mush, a policeman.
active agent.
giivors, villages, towns.
cnneah, nine.
(is,
gdvver,
it.
garava,
do
or
will
hide.
esti,
for sa esti
(s'asti).
gdvvered, hidden.
geero, a
man, a person
a Gipsy).
loent.
(especi-
F
FuPhini, Persian.
fiUhni, /a/c, countcrfiit.
fern,
ally not
ghinfl,
he went.
ghi(jm, / went, we
a hand.
gbidn, they went
ghilo, gone.
fergoi, fig.
ferri, to entice, allure, to please.
'
to sinn.
gill. S
ferridiro, better.
flliMin,
glllaben, a song, a singing.

gill.iH,
a mansion.
he sang.
it
tirHtuH, first.
flick, clever, r/uick, ndi/'t.
gillola, he, she, or
sings.
gillur, to ling.
gilli,
flickuor, clfvcitr, quicker,

f'jrdd,
}
a song.
forgivt
Miduvel fordu
forgive him
!
,
gillied,
he sung.
fordel, i
\'w,(io(l
gillior, songs.
I
fordia, he forglrin.
giiiiior ajirfi (g
bard), to count (oho
fordia wufropun,
forgiven.
foki, pfoplCffulk.
may
his sin he
koiiiUT
and
;
kemb'r).
Oinny
in'iiii
Virginia
Water
{proper name).
258
giv, wheat, oats.
givi^scro,
givili,
GLOSSARY.
hafta, seven.
a farmer, farming.
song.
halaben,
a meal.
hdmil,
to attack.
giv-puvior, oat-lands.
glal, before, in
bamlin, kneading.
hdnik, a well.
d-c.
front
of.
gdi,
^:)tV,
pudding, sausage,
hanser, to ridicule.
haro, halono, copper.
gorgiki, English, not Gipsy (fern.)
gorgiko, English, not Gipsy {mas.)

gorgio,
ft
hatch, to stand, stay, bring
to
white man, not a Gipsy.
hatch a tan,
to hatch
to
to
pitch a tent;
it
gorgiones, in English.
graior, horses.
it, to
it.
stand
i.e.,
endure
grdnya, a
grilsni,
ham, a mare.
buU.
hatched apic, stood up.

hatchÎla, he, she, or
it
stands.
gruv,
hatchdrdo, stood, stayed.

hdtchin, standing.
gruvni, a cow.
gry,
horse.
hatch oprd,
angry.
hav, come
/
to
stand up.
cross,
gddli, noise.
gudli, sweetly.
haurini (hyno, hdnnalo),
gudlo, a trick [masc.)
gudlo, sweet, a
(masc.)
siceel thing,
sugar
hav
hav
acai,
come here
avri,
come away
gujer, to
make a deep
noise.
noise.
haw,
to eat.
gunno, a bag, sack.

guri, to
heb, heaven.
hdfta, seven {masc.)
hdfti, seven {fern,
make a
gtirlo, throat.
and pi.)
J
gtirni,
a cow.
hekka, hekki, hokki, haste

hdrro, herri,
leg,
gurnidver, a cucumber (b.d.)

gusveri, wise, discreet.
wheel.
hev, a hole; coal-hev, a coal-hole. hev, a dimpile, heaven.
guzno, proud.
hevdngries, shutters.
H
ha, hal, to eat;
hdvyor, valleys.
ate.
hadom, I
hevyor, windows.
hikker, to confess.
Labben, food.
li
elder, to lift.
hockabeu, a
lie,
a fraud.
de-
lidddered, lifted.
hdckeni, false, fraudulent,

ceptive ; deceit,
hadem,
v;e ate.
lie.
GLOSSARY.
hdcker, to jump.
hdckerin, sprirKjimj,
259
to look
byver,
into, to
pry
into.
jump 'ng.
"peek" (American).
hockerpen, a
lie,
fraud.
I
bono (hyno), angry.

hopper, to carry away.
hoppercore, policeman.
bora,
xcatch, hour.
i,
she, they.
iudi, firewood.
is, if.
borra, a penny.
botch<511a,
it
burns.
iv,
snow.
hcjtcher, to burn.
hdtcbered, burnt.
J
3A,9o.
jafra, ajafro, as such.
jal, to go.
jal, to
hotchewitchi, a ludyeJioy.
hotchni, whiskey.
hovalos,
f/aitera, stockiiujs.
hub,
hufa,
lid, cover.
make to go
jul the graias.
cap.
to take aioay.
run
jala,
off the horaea.
hukker,
he goes.
bukkered, cheered.
bukki, already.
huler, to shelter.
jilMn, go
on I mote on ! (pron
joll-
dnn).
jfiUan, they go.
bunkeri, dry
hriiikeri-rukk,
jails, goes.
dry
lifinnalo,
tree.
jfimpa, yVo// or toad.
bored,
awjry,
bud,
jan,/o' ja
iiii,
go on
rotten.
]iunnal(), obstimite.
jasKcd, gone, went.

jilssin, gain'. jilva,
bunnel,
to vex.
/ go, J will go.

170.
lifinter, to arise.
jilw,
bnnti,
r/rt
uf)/
jaw
jt-HH,
vii,
go awoy
bdiibti, to rite.
liuiibti aprd, yrt up.
jellod, ictn<.
go.
buitki,
what fur
/"
why?
mour
t.
joiwcd, gone.
jt.'MHin,
bnUT,
hany
apr<?,
up, to
going.
bntennl
yot up (on horse-
ji,
to like.
back).
bfitlo, ihalloui.
jinn, they went.

jib,
language,
jib, in
tpeech
dn>
>
av<i
butt'j,
hung up, mounted.
what Inn gunge
26o
jido,
liv'inrj,
GLOSS AR Y.
alive.
kairen,
they
make,
or
do
so
jiller, to sing.
kairen men, what are
tve to
jillo,
gone.
do?
kairdngei'i,
;
^
jin, to
jin, to
know.
knoiu
jiuava,
house-dweller
(/e"*-)
/ know
kairdngii,
jindoni, I knew.
kair^ngro, a house-dtveller (masc.)

kairengror, house-dwellers.
kairin sig, pretending.
kdj (kasb), silk.
inaben, knowledge.
inavit, to
know.
ins, knou's.
ippo, a patch, 'patched.

iv, to
kako, an uncle.
kai, cheese.
kali.
live.
live; jivava,
live.
ivaben,
iivvas,
life, existence.
Mack
(fern.)
thou
livest,
didst
kaliko, to-morrow, yesterday.

kalleri, vain.
iwiu', living.
ouger, to wake.
oter, jota, together.
kalo, black [mas.
),
dark, lazy.
kalodirus, blacker.
ove, oats.
kalo drom, a black road, dark.

kalo pani, the ocean, the dark or
black water.
ukals, dogs.
ukalo-Rommanis, dog-Gipsy.
a wife,
va,
)
woman.
kalopen, darkness, blackness.

kalor,
shilling.
kalo-rattescro,
appertaining
to
K
kai, where.
'kai, ^'.g., acai, here.
the
dark
night.
kdm, kam, kam,
the sun. business, affair, want.

to love, like.
kair,
a house.
lis in
kamakunycr, a mouse.
kiimava, /
love, like.
kair, to do.
kair
kar,
do
it
in
company
kambri, kamli, enceinte.

kamela, he or she loves or
likes.
ivith
some one.
kairava, / do, or will do.

kairavit, to do.
kameli, loving, lovely, enceinte.

kameli, darling.
kainlum, J did.
kair duro, to sink.
kamdscri, loving, a sweetheart.
kamescro,
lover.
loveliest.
kaired kin, tired, sharpened.

kairedo, done.
kamlidlrest,
kamlo, loving, darling.
GLOSSAR Y.
kammoben, anything agreeable; tukey kammoben, for thy
take.
261
k^das
(i.e.,
kordas), thou didst,
ye did.
ke-diwus, to-day,
kek, no,
(a.
kamni, enceinte.
not,'
none.
kettle.
kamora, kamOrus, room
kekavi, a pot,
kams, he
loves, likes.
kan, the ear {pi. kanawor).

kuna, kan, when.
drorayii, church-going
kek covva, nothing. kek-kek kumi, "not no more," "never no morc.^'

kekkeno, none, nothing.
kekker, no.
kaugr&ki
xcays, piety.
kaugri, church.
kekkumi, no more.
kangri-pov,
kek
}
)
nai, not, there is not.
,/^^,/,^,,;
kangry-puv,
kani, a hen.
kekumi, any more.

kel, to dance.
kdnu<% now, when.

kanner, to utink.
kilnnls, hens, fouls.
kdlled, danced.
kdllela, it dances.
kdllin,
dancing.
kiinya,
a sack.
kdlloben, a dance, a bull.
kap, to take.
kenaw,
,
kap, to
get.
kennii, )
) f
now.
kap-buti mufh, a prosperous man.
kenna, ago.
kennadoi, now and then.
kappa, clothes, a
kiir, to
bl'iidrt.
to.
cry out, roar, shout, call
kenna
\ii'.\m\
sig,
by and by, soon.
kari,
a thorn, neck,
hay.
kepsi, kipsi,
a basket,
karm (kam) gleam,

kiiua,
kosh, viillow.
k(5r,
a house.
kaAw'ngro, a hay-stack.
katMOH, scissors, shears.
kaiiliko,
keratti, to-night.
k(?ravit, to do.
tomorrow, yrsterdoy.
love, like.
kerdo, done, rndrd.

kdrela, he, she, or
k(5relo, / do.
it
kaulor, a shilling.
does.
kniim, to
kiivakai, this here.

'kavi,
kdrimiifl, doing, deed.

k(5rin,
pot, keltic (for kekftvi).
doing,
kavod'ji, that there,
kerin, a
worm.
ke,
to,
that, as.
kcrri, at Jiomr.
kttli, to Jiirk.
kerro, done, fmithnl.
262
kessur, to care,
test,
GLOSSARY.
try
;
maiuly
korauna, a croivn ;
half-a-crnwn.
pilsli-korauiKi,
kessava, / care.
k^ti, to, toioards, staiyht to.
koredo (kurredo),
koosi, kusi, few.
blind.
kettena,
ketteui,
"v
\
)
together.
kosh,
kosliter,
kettenus,
stick.
ki {pron. kye), wherever, %ohere.

ki'
kil,
kosbter-stogg, a rick of faggots.

kosser, kusser, to clean.
krallisa, the queen.
and
)
'doi,
here
and
there.
kill
kil,
^^ ^^"2/> ^^
;
dance.
Krallisas gav, Windsor.
butter
kil-curro, buttercup.
Krallis'wesh, Windsor Forest.

kri-kria, kiri,
krili,
killer, to bloom.
killin, playing.
kill, to
an
ant.
funny.
buy.
kuder, to open.
kukalus, doll, fairy, dwarf, goblin.
kin, the edge. kinlo,

1
.
tired.
;
kulla (kolla), things.
kissi,
much
sar kissi,
how much
kumbo, a
kumi,
hill.
kister, to ride.
quiet.
kitchema, an inn
boro kitoh-
kun, who, when.

kuneri, old.
ema, grand
klisin, lock-up.
hotel.
kunjerni, secretly.
.spirally,
klisin, Uj
wind around
a
lock.
kunji (koonjee), narrow,

kunsus, corner, end.
kunter,
(o adulterate.
close.
to twist about.
klisin,
key,
ko, v)hat.
kur, to strike, beat, fight, to grieve,

^
kOkeri {/em.),
vex.
^'
kokero
kOk'ro
{7nasc.),
i.e.,
kuraben, n blow, a fight.

kuramt^ngro, fighting man, warrior.
kokero.
kom, to lore, like. kommeni. some, somebody, any. kon (kun), who, then, ivhen, therefore, what.
kor, eyebrow.
kured, beaten.
kfirhav,
kuri,
a proverb.
vessel.
a cup,
kuricus, a week.
koraben, noixe.
kor'ben,
kdrri (kulli
noise.
?),
tin.
making a
kiirran,
an
oath.
GLOSSARY.
kurredo, beaten.
kurried, beaten.
kursas, kurshni, dexterom^.
263
a
linguist, professor.
lavdngro,
orator.
Idvus,
14,
a word.
liave, hold, take, to
kuaher apr6,
kushko,
fjood.
to flatter.
they.
lei, to
kushkipen, goodness.
kushtier, better.
kushtiest,
best.
yuv
way.
lulled a drotn, he
own ; had a
Idldom, J took.
Idllas,
kushti-rudered, wdl -dressed.
thou didst take.
kushto, good.
lulled, taken, held,
owned.
kushto-bak, goo<l luck.

kushtodirus,
better.
lulled opr(5, taken up, arrested. Idlled adusta,

Idlliu, taking.
had enough.
kusDO, a basket.
UUo, taken.
lei rdk,
take care
L
la, she,
Idle,
he takes.
take care!
her.
lei vin',
lab, lav, lip, edge, profit.

laj,
len, tluy.
ashamed.
of or to her.
Idnder, them,
of,
from, or by (hem.
Idjipen, shame, viodcuty.

laki. her,
Idndy, them.
IdngeriB, their,
lens, their.
les, his.
of them.
lakis, }
lak'B.;'"^'IdngH, along.
lasa, her, with her.
Idiiflcd,
IdHcro,
Idakri,
of him. of him {before a feminine
he, she, or
it
took.
leaai
noun).
(
IfuitUB, at last.
pron. leH-aee),
it is.
latcha, to find,
knp.
Idstcr,
him, of or by nivi.
iatcLed,
latchd...
Icsti, to
}
him.
^^"""'^-
IcHtiH kiikoro, himself.
latchedorn,
vc
met
lit.,
xrc
leviiia,
beer
(German
Ciip>y,
found.
latcbcr, to find.
lati, to her,
Icviiior,
loviiiu).
n,
it.
her.
lian,
lion,
ye or you took, got. he or they look.

/
to'ik.
lav,
a word.
lava, /
do or
will take.
lioiii,
264
lil,
GLOSSARY.
lutfi
lily,
a book.
lilei,
chdvo, adopted son.
lilai,
summer, maid-
lutter, to
wallow (lutterin adrd
hood.
Lilengreski
gav,
chik).
Cambridge
luva,
money
(lovey).
(book-learners' town).
lino, taken.
lis,
it,
M
ma,
don't.
him.
livindugris, hops.
Livindugri-tem, Keiit
livvena, beer (livena
mai (my), /. maila, a donkey.

or levina.
ma
rakker, don't speak.
probably more correct than

levinor).
lo, he, it, that.
mal, mdlor, malya, companions.
maluna, lightning or thunder.
lock,
a shadow.
(pron. also ladder),
to
man, /. man, musn't, don't!

man,
the heart, soul.
l<5dder
lodge, abide.
mander, from me.
loko, heavy or light.
lolo-pabo, tomato.
mandy, /, to me, me. mang, to beg, ask; mi raangav

tute, I beg you.
lougo-duro, farther.
louver,
lovva,
^
mangermdngro, a beggar. mano, silly.
man
lovvy,
'
pen, mustn't say.

tu, cheer
mdnsha
up
luchipen, sensuality.
mansy, with me.

manrxsh, a
Mdderin, shaking.
lullan,
man.
they vanish
len
lullan
mdnusbi, a woman.
man'y,
e.g.,
'vri,
they vanish away.
mandy.
1611er, to vanish, disappear.
mariklo, cake.
luUi, farthing.
lullo, red.
marc, bread.
maro's
'ker,
an
oven.
lullo 0' the yora, yolk.
martadas, he wailed.
lullopen, redness, ruddiness.
martava, L wail.
lun, salt.
mas, meat ; Mas-diwus, Sunday.

mdsker, in the midst
of.
Ltindra, London.
Lundramtjskro
lur, to rob.
jiv,
London
life.
mdtcha, a
fish. cat.
matcbka,
GLOSSARY.
mdtchyor,
mol^ngrls, grapes.
mol^ngri-tan, vineyard.
265
fishes.
nidtto, drunk.
mavi, rabbit.
mor, do
not.
killed."
mee, mi, a
mile.
miles.
mored,
meeyor, mior,
mdriclo, a cake.
men, among. men, to me.
morno, our own.

mornis, our own.
men, the mendui,

m^r,
neck.
tee
moro,
i,
our.
two.
to
moro, bread.
mortclii, leather.
mengy, me,
to die.
me.
yoi'd a-m<^red, she
'mout, without.
;
m^red, died
mui, face.
mui-engro,
)
)
would have died.

merdla, he, she, or
it
a Ukcncss.apirture.
dies.
muiengri,
mdriben, death,
m, my.
life.
mujer,
"^^^'
\
'Merican^skro, American.
to let,to leave, to be
worth
mi,
I,
mukk,
midiri,
my
dear.
mukk
alay, to let
let go.
down.
Middvel, God.
mukkdv,
j
mi
duvvel-B tem,
tern,
)
uiukk mengy
/,,,.^
jal, let
me go!
Miduvelus
miller, to
mukker,
to fly.
mill, sweetly.
add
up, to usHCViblf, to
niukkeran duro, flying far. niukkered avri, flown away,

out.
let
mix, to adulterate.
minner,
miiino,
to
make a fuss.
my, mine.
nnikkert'd avrl his dfikk, he delivered himself {liberavit ani-
iiiinriil,
iiilraben, life, diuth.
mam.
mull
(inol), worth.
mini, my.
mirlH, mine.
miHali,
mTilIiT, In die, to kill.

mnll<;ri"<l, killed,
table.
dead.
miHlito, svect, nice, fflad.
mnlicrin, dying.
minhto pen, twret vorda.

niiito,
e.f/.,
mnllo, dead.
n-.nil",
rf'r.
mihto.
a bubble, shadow.
mol,miil,tfinf,krilornul,por<,
mnllo, a spirit, ghost.
mol, wine
port.
lollo inol, red wine,
mQllo haulor, dead

mQlIo
pig.
cLiriclo, raven.
266
mumeli,
light, candle.
GLOSSARY.
ndwo, named.
net, not.
mun,
the forehead.
she, or it squeezes.
munella, he,
nevvi, neto.
munjer,
to pinch,
a pig
that has
nidderi (nudderi), ignorant.

nik-but, no good.
nlli, blue.
died a natural death.
muscro, a policeman.
mush, a man, a mouse. mushero, vuisculine.

musbi, arm.
mtitchimengro, a tanner.
nisser, to swallow.
nisser the
to
beng and sar

the
jivin,
svjallow
devil
and
every living thing.

nisser,
to
mutterimengri,
rnyla,
tea,
remove,
miss,
avoid,
donlcey.
keep away, pour out, empty,

extinguish, to vex.
nisseri cdvva,
mylas, donkeys.
a strange
thing.
nitehi, peevish.
N
ndflo,
ill,
nok, the nose.
sick.
noko, one's own,

nutti, nuts.
ndflopen,
an
illness.
ndflopen-kair,
hospital.
uak, end.
nak
nai,
o'
ye divvus, the end of

is
the
o, the
[masc.)
day.
oitoo, eight.
not,
a finger-nail, there
okki, okai, there.
nan
est.
oprd, on, up.

ora, or, {broken dialect).
nango, naked, bare.

narkeri (nakkeri), spiteful.
nisher, to
lose,
ovavo, the other, the next.
to
hang, forget,
spoil, run.
ndshered, ' ndsherdo,

nass,
)
J.
7 j hanged,
lost.
pa, ybr, on. pa, /or

;
Latch pa
leste, wait for
away
'\
him.
pa, by, near, on.
nasser, to lean on.

nasti,
,
pdbos, apples.
not
"^to, '
nastis,
n'asti,
f it is
unable, can'
>
'
'
(
)
s-port, jollity.
paias,
nav, a name.
paiascro, jolly.
GLOSSA/?V
pdkker, to defend,
pal,
to clean.
267
pasher a pash bar, nearly half-a-
a
of
brother.
pound.
accent
(i.e.,
pal
a lav,
its
pash-korauna, half-a-crown.
paah-iuli, (jrcy\half-bl>ie).
patoi,
brother, M.C.)
pala, oh, brother!
paldll,
pali,
)
a sign.
piltriii,
leaf.
patser, credit, trust, believe.
palass,
pale,
'
again, behind.
patserdo, trusting.
patsered, promised.
pdtserus, possible.
p;itteran,
. ,
paller, to follow ; to nourish, to
rear.
)
?
paller an, follow after.

palor, brethren.
patterani,
track, a si'/n.
'
'
pauli, behind, after.
pander, to
tie,
to suspend.
pauDO, white {masc.)

pauni, white (fern.)
pandered,
tied,
bound,
close.
panderpen, the pound.

paudngri, a
this
bell
pauvero, poor.
peerdos, travellers.
(corrupted into
fomi by an Englinh who had at first learned it from a German

Gipsy,
peggor, skewers.
I>ekker, to roast or bake.
pelled, fallen.
Gipsy as gani'pana.)
pSni, water.
pelled
a,\Ti,
fallen
off.
it.
'pels it alay, ilrvps
panj,
Jive.
pelt alay, fallen

;
off.
pdnni,
water
pari the
iiuiini,
pein, thing.
over the water.
pen, to say, to think.
pdnser, to approve.
papiro, paper.
para, pari, to fxchavge.
pen,
sister.
(rt
pen
termination used in form;
ing nouns, us kuslito, good

kuHliti|>en, goodness).
par-akdi, before now.

paravit, split, shntlir.
pari, over, across.
peniiva, / say.
pendaH, thou didst say, he said.

pendiotn, / said.
parraco, thank yon.
poHh, by, near, beside

pfiah-divvuB, afternoon.
a half
]i(.iid(iH,
he said.
penelian, they say.
pSahcr, nearly.
piiah-njul, ncighbonriny.
pennaH, thou sayest.

pi'Iinin, saying.
268
peniiis,
GLOSSARY.
a saying.
as.
poller, to feed, nourish.
pensa, pensi, like,

per, to Jail.
pooro, poor.
poov, the earth, ground

pordo, full.
; peski, self.
field.
pesh, to shine.
peskri, her
own
por^Dgripen, tvriting.
pOri, a feather, pen, or tail.
pessur, to pay.
Petul^ngro,
Smith
{a
proper
porno, bacon.
posserben, burial.
pov, earth,
name).
philissin,
pi,
a mansion.
pi
to
ground
a field.
to
drink; to
moben,
health.
your kamdrink your
praio-tem, heaven (query, praller-
tem).
praler
i.e.,
paler.
pinder, to attack.
praller sherro, overhead.

prasser, to abuse. praster, to run.
pingoro, an associate.
jiiopen, drink, somethinij to drink.
piredor, travellers, tvalkers.

pirella, he walks.
prasterin
races.
o'
ye
gryor,
Jiorse-
pirengri,
traveller (fern.)
'pr^
i.e.,
oprfe, aprd.
pirengro, a walker, a traveller.

piri,
puders,
it
blows.
afoot.
) t
)
pukk,
to say, to speak, to tell, to
pirriben,
i_ pirraben,
sing.
a walk.
pukdr, aloud.
pukeni, quiet (fern.)
pirried, walked.
pirro,
beginning
tacho pirro,
pukeno,
pukker,
quiet (masc.
tell,
well begun.
]pirro,
pukkelan, they
;
they say.
dear, free
afoot.
to tell.
pirros, feet.
pukkeras,
thoii tellest.
pirryin, walking. pirryni, dear, sueetheart (fcm.)
pukkerin,
telling.
pur, to change, to turn.
pirryno,
dear,
sweetheart
(masc.)
plashta,
puraben, a turn, the action of turning, exchange.

pureni, old age.
puri, old,
a red
zi,
cloak, mantle.
poggado, broken.
aged (fern.)
pdggado
pogger,
broken heart.
puripen, old age.

pure, old (masc.)
to break.
it
pogger^lla, he, she,
breaks.
p<irr, belly.
GLOSSARY.
purub, purus, west (Hindustani,
the east).
pufl,
269
ratteskri nightly, [ftm.], in the

night.
straw.
ratt^skro (masc.) nightly.
pusheno, buried.
pusimegrid, spurred, pricked.
pusta, a spur.
rdtfuUy, Moody.
rati,
night.
ratti,
putcb, >utcb,
rani,
to ask.
putcbt )utchei-,
>
)
rawuey,
J-
a lady.
putcbin, a-skiufj. bin, askiufj.
rawni,
religionus, religion.
putsey, ey,
putdi,
>
a pocket.
; (t
rig (rikk), side.

field.
puv, earth, (/round
riggur, to take, carry.

rikk, side.
puva,
puvor,
r
\
plural o/puv. ^ ' '
rikk,
to keep.
puv-vardo, plough.
pyass, sport, jollity, fun.
rikker,
rikker, to carry, keep, retain.
rikkered,
kejit.
R
rackli,
rikkers, he keeps, he carries.
girl.
rikkorus, beside, aside; theside of
niffer, to descend.
anything.
!
rdk, lei rak, take cure
rinkeni, jn-ctty (fern.)
rilkker, to speak, to lulk.

rakli,
rinkeno, pretty (masc.)

ri.sher, to bribe.
yirl.
r&klo, a boij.
risHcr, to turn,
<(('."<,
<tr.
ran,
an
osier.
risser, to Ircmhlc, shake, stir.

riv, to
rinkni, prctiy (Ilindii, rangiiii,
wear (lidder, ruder),
gaily coloured).
rodder, to seek, search.

roi, rooy,
Tim, a lady.
ranjer,r6njer, to take oJf,undrcss.
a spoon (Hindu,
doi).
rokkcr, to npcak.
ranya, osier twigs.

raabdi,
rokkerapen,
rokkerpeii,
a clergyman.
'
'
clergymen.
Hum, a hutband, a Gipsy Himln,

(
riisliera,
pom).
Uoinani,
lioincli,
/
riabimongr'i, n prcucher.
rut, blood.
u-if>: (//.,
D(.niiii).
ratfulo, bloody.
Kouimanebkiifl, Gipsy fashion.
270
GLOSSARY.
ruzli o' the sala,
Romiuaiii chal, a Gipsy lad.
dawn.
Roinmani joter,
ing cry.
tlie
Gipsy (lather-
ruzha, a flower.
ruzhior, flowers.
ruzlo, strong, bold, harsh,
stiff.
Rdmiuanipen, Gipsydom.
R6mmauis, Gipsy lanyuaye.

R(5mmani,
Gipsy.
ruzno, strong, bold.

rya, oh, sir J
rye,
Rommano,
romni, a wife.
rov, to cry, to weep.
a gentleman.
ryeskro, gentlemanly.
rovades, he wept.
rovel, rovÎla,
S
sa,
he or she weeps.
dress.
such, so, like, as.
sa buti, as
much
as.
rudaben,
safrdn, yellow.
siiko, all this.
rudderin, seeking.
riidela,
he or she seeks.
sakunii, as ever.
sala, the
ruder,, to search, feel the person,

seek.
morning.
Sillamauka, a table.
salivilrdo, saliviiris, bridle.
liter-
ruderpen, dress.
rukestamengro, a squirrel,
ally,
trees.
'
sani, soft [fern.)
having
to
do
with
sano, soft, thin, slender (masc.)

sap,
a drop.
tree, the galloivs.
sar, all.
sar, with, as, like, hoiv.
rukk,
rukker,
trees.
sarapre, all over.

sarasar, altogether, always.
rukkor,
rummer, to marry. rummered, , > married. rummoed,

)
.
sar but,
how much
saridui, both.
'
sarishau,
how do you do
(fur sar
runjer, to distress.
shan).
sarja, everywhere, all.
sarlo,
ruppeni, ambitious.
ruppeuo,
silver.
morning.
rush, clean.
rdsher, lo attack.
rushni, bright.
saro, all.
sarrati, all night.
sar'sban, see sarishan.
ruvv, to weep, cry.

ruz, day.
sa saf, all right.

sastis, can, able.
GLOSSARY.
Basti,
271
perhaps,
<i:c.
may
he,
must,
shilleri, cool, chilly.
should,
sbiUo, cold.
shillopen, cold.
shimill, the north.
satcho, true, truly,

s&v, to smile, laugh.
8i[veri, cruel.
sLindo, wet.
that
;
edvo,
which,
siivo
mush,
sblr avri, to
pour
out.
that
man.
sbirki, star (cbiriki).
sav' pen'ia,
who
says.
shirro, sour.
eiwer,
to
lawjh.
shock, a bough.
shorn,
)
fidvyins, smiles.
88, is.
am ;
I
shomas, / was,
mi
shorn,
we were.
Bee, heart.
shorn
shillo,
am
cold.
selno, green.
shore, to praise (shar).

shorin, praising, boasting.
shosh(5i,
sensus, since (b.d.)
Bbab, night, dew.
a hare or rabbit.
shab
o'
the
ratti, to
go by night.
shov, six.
sbtor, four.
sbaian, perhaps.
Bb3,k, body, bough, cabbage.
shuba, a woman's gown.

shukar, quietly, gently, dry.
shiiker, to wither, fade,
ebakerella, she covers.
sbam, evening.
Bbilm, /
dry up.
am.
shuker,
to begin.
Bban, you are, they are.
shul, to whistle (sholl, shell).
Bban, bad.
th&T-aprii, to boast, cry up.
shun,
listen.
shuuaben, obedience.
shunabcn, a noise, hearing; the
ahel,
shell, to cry or
a hundred. scream
out.
shdllaben, a cry.
BbellH, he cries out.
sound of the voice; pardon; judgment.

Mhunalo,
tshinlo,
had, ill-tempered.
Bbellcd, cried out.
Hhuiiela, she hears.
Bherongro,
BhQned, heard.
Bherr<5rigro, \
head man, captain.
HJiunelo, / hear.
HhriiiH,
eherrcJacro,
sounds.
sherro, head.
8h($rro-i ar, head-stone.
shill, cold.
Hhrnuini, I heard (ib
lu.iii
Kn
Hhunum).
HhQveni, heaullful,
sbilla
>eii,
cold.
bhydn, perhaps.
ZJZ
si,
GLOSSARY.
skiluuiiin, chair.
as.
si, tlit
soul, heart.
skunya, a
slom,
boot.
81, he, is.
to follow, track.
siddi, nmiqlity.
slommado, followed, tracked.

slommer,
so,
to follow,
sidus (zldo), alive.

sig,
track (cant).
quicldy, straight, right.
what, who.
sig,
way, manner,
sign,
indication,
soiiaki, golden.
disguise, liJceness, col-
sdunakai, gold.
800V, to sleep.
sore,
sor,
) i, ) all.
our
sig,
kek
o'
sig,
no
right.
or sik
the tern, the law.

fur, to pity.
''
sIg, to be ; sig,
sigaben, a chance.
sigdn, 'Straight on.
siggadiro, quicker.
sig o*
si
sorno, pork.
SOS, is, was.
so
si lis,
what
)
,
is it ?
,
.
my
zi,
anxious.
soskey's,
,
.
>
)
what
is it ?
IS,
why
what.
kam^lo,
it is likely.
soski,
sossi,
sosti,
sikker (sigger), to shew, to teach,

able.
what
has
to,
must, ought.
sikker, sure.
sov, to sleep, to lie

tLc.
down.
sikkerava,
sikkeras,
/ teach, shew, you teach.
sovadura, /
slept.
sovahall, to sivear ;
an
oath.
sikkerdlla, he teaches.
sove, to sleep, lie down.

Bovar, sleepy.
sikkered, taught.
sikkerin, teaching.
sikkeriii
splnya,
stadi,
a pin (Med. Greek).

hat.
mQsh, a
to,
teacher, school-
master.
siklo,
stani, buck, stag.
used
accustomed.
like,
Stans Chumber, St Anne's Hill.

stanj'a, stable.
star, to
sim, the same,

related.
to
resemble,
imprison.
sim^nsa, relations, kin.

siins, resembles.
stardi,
hat.
staripen, prison, imprisonment.

(ziiidi, alive).
sindor, cinders
Bl
starmdskero, imprisoned.
staror, the stars.
pash
sig, pj7ta/?s.
slrdn, faster.
starribened, imprisoned.
starya, stars.
siro puv,
a reaped field.
a needle.
siv, to sew,
stekka, a stack.
GLOSSARY.
stigga,
27:
gate.
tanopen, childhood, youth.

tdnya, tents, camp.
?
slider apre, huivj up. suji (saji) dovo, wha-t is that
tarderin, hiding.
tas,
suker, to burn.
sukni, hot.
a cup.
morning.
strangle,
suffocate
to
tasala, this
sum,
to taste, smell.
tasser,
sumeli, sweet-smelling.
suneli, handsome.
droicn.
tassered,
left behind.
suffocated,
;
strangled.
sunered, suuado,
sur, deep.
drowned
devil
beng tasser tute strangle you !
sumi, bright
red.
tdtchi, true.
tdtter, to heat, fry.
tdtti, hot (fern.)
aurrelo, strong., hard.
surriko-musb, an actor.
BUB, was.
tatto, hot (masc.)

sleep,
sutto,
a dream.
tdtto,
handy, expert.
8UV
(suvi),
a needle. down.
tiltto-kairabeu, sharp practice.
suvali, infirm.
tdttopen, heat, summer.

lie
Buvo, to sleep,
8UV0,
to
tav, string, strip, rag.
swim.
Bwiabi, ugly.
'''^'^^''^'{to tav apr(>,

tavvni, little,
lift
up.
young.
T
te, to.
te,
tel,
and.
thread.
tdcbeni, true (fan.)

tiichipen,
j
tern, country.
tdnna, then.
^^.,^^/^
)
tdchopeii,
te
v($l,
to
come
vsed^ to e.c]ircsK
tacho, true, rial, right.

tichodiro, trurr.
the future.
to v6], shall or will.

ticktii,
tachonuH, true.
tdder, to draw.
tale,
tickno,
lei
a child, a baby {fcm.) a little child, a baby ; U

a tickii", to be confined.
under.
tamlo, dark-.
tikker, to abide in.
tamlopcn, darkness.
tan,
tikno, a baby.
tlr,
place,
tdner, to
a tent. drown (a as
near.
in Ann).
tiro, thine.
titla,
tani [fern, andplu.), small, young.
butterfly.
274
tiv, to knit.
GLOSSARY.
tulak, behind, back.
tul^,
^
tivdas, she knitted.
tivved, knitted.
tuir,
taller,
/
p"^^*"'"
)
tober, a road (a slang ivord.)
toob, grief.
tool, to hold, to keep, vuinage.
tuUno,
tulker, bitter.
tiillo,
tooled, held.
toolin',
fat.
dnving
{a cart.)
tuneri, fierce.
tute, thou, you.
toov, grief.
tove, to wash.
tover,
tuv, smoke.
an
axe.
tuv, gnef.
tovin-divvus,
day).
Monday
{washing-
U
!
trad, care ; lei trad, take care

trash, /ear y trashava,
-U3,
a termination
disguise them.
often
added
to
I fear.
i
English or Gipsy nouns

ji
to
trjtsheno (mas.)
^
'
) \
)
^ r awj id, fearful.
trdsheni (fern.)
utiir, ôest.
trdsherdo, afraid, frightened.

tiaslierdo
uzar,
by chance.
mullo, frightened to
death.
trashipen, terror, a fearful thing.

trin, three.
vaccasbo, lamb.
vanka, when.
vas, he went, she loent.
vasi,
trindesh, thirteen.
trtippesko, bodily.
he or she went.
truppo, the body.

tnisharo, a pannier.
trushilo, thirsty.
vdssavo, bad.
^^'*''
vast,
I a hand.
)
trushni, a basket.
vava, will
vlas,
(affix).
trushul, a cross.
tufer, to
he came.
vin), take care.
T / came, we came.
mend.
thee.
;
vin
(lei
)
tukey, to or for
viom,
'
>
)
tukno
tul,
(tuk), sad, woe
tuknu&,
vIom,
sorroio.
vonggar, money, coal.

to drive,
to
hold,
squeeze,
v6ri80, vtiriso, nothing, anything.
lead; tul your cbiv, hold
voro, flour, meal.
your tongue.
voudress, a bed.
GLOSS A J? Y.
^y
wadress, bed.
wafli, thin, scanty.
275
come; used
to
wel, to wel, to
express the future.
wen, winter.
wendsto, wintry.
^^^"'
]
bad, evil.
waffodi,
wesh, a forest, a wood.
waffodi jivvin, bad or
hard
life.
weshengrdski,
ajypertaining
to
waffodipen,
wilfodi, bad.
evil.
forest rangers.
weshengrdski chorin, poaching.

weshdugro, a
.,
wafodipen,
evil.
,
forester,
a game-
wafodo,
'
(
)
baa,
keeper.
evil.
wafro,
weshni, forest, woody, wild.
wriiTO-dickeno,bad-looiinff(ugly).
weshni drom,
a forest.
the
road towards
wiifropen, evil.
walin, a
bottle,
vessel.
weshni-jukal, a fox.
walin
dukh, a
vessel
of wrath.
weshni kani, a pheasant.

wishto,
lip.
wardo, a cart, van.

warter, to watch, wait.
witchaben, hatred.
witcher, to hate.
wartni mush, watchman.

wast, a hand.
wdngish, a
little,
a short time.
wasta-pord, a handful.
wdngur, money,
day).
coal.
wastermdugris, handcuffs.
^^^''''
wdngur-divvus, Saturday (payworrisso, anything.

wilder, a door.
\hands.
\
waators,
waver, another, the other.
wriver-temmeny. forci'/n,
belonrj-
ing to another country.

wfivero,
) t
\
^^^' wuBser,
I
)
to throw.
.
differently, otlunmse. " "
wye, due.
wavencro,
Y
yack, an eye.
yug,
fire.
wiivior, others.
welgora, a fair.
wellan, they come.
wellatt, tlion romtst.
yagdngro, an inspector.
yagdskro, fen/.
welled ta dukh, " come to yrief."
yugdskro
chil),
a tongue of firr,
/*
wellgoro,
welliii,
'
{ )
a fair.
fume.
yrign\,fcry.
coming.
yak, an rye.
2^6
yakitn,
certain,
i.
GLOSSARY.
c,
mai ked,
dell
the
yek
pal' a waver,
one after an-
observed.
other.
yakk, an
eye,
a wink; to
" to
give
yiv, snoio, ice.
the
yakk,
yog, firey6\, she.
office," to vnn1c.
yakkas,
\ yakkor,
'
eyes.
)
^')\they.
yui,
yakkerpen,
ye, the.
eyesight.
yoras, eggs.
yuv,
one.
he.
yuv yuzhered
off,
avri,
he cleared
yek,
y^^^'i )
vanished.
yeck
cdvvEi,
one thing.
yuzher, to clean.
yeck'eti waver, one to another.

y^ckli, only.
Z
zl,
ydckno, one, single.

yeckora,
)
heart,
mind,
soul.
zi-hush, sensible, shreivd (Persian,

once.
>
yekorus,
hush,
sense, shrewdness).
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3 1822 00304 0300

WITH METRICAL. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year ISVO,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

was desirous of adding specimens of Rom-

songs to the collection of proverbs and tales con-

tained in the Avork, but could obtain none possessed of

beyond doubt a great deal of singing in Romit is

American Indians, without

form and void, wanting

metre and rhyme, and chanted

to wliat only a very impressible disciple of Sugg(stiv(*

Art could recognise as a tune.

have often heard

of gratitude for a shilling which

into its recci)tacle, followed

through the streets

some time announccMl

intention to die on the fifteenth day of the following

month, had passed the previous evening

was a " werry lonesome

and " about a yard and a half long," as

mant indicated by extending

It had " no tune

brother seemed to think, no

the way, that the prediction was not

the old woman's relations were quite persuaded that

would be so on the day appointed.

had given up the inten-

tion of forming such a collection,

by a friend who may

be among the " deepest " of the deep in

the langiiage, as well as others by Professor Palmer and

Miss Janet Tuckey, suggested to

me the idea that

might be written and

even though not composed by dwellers in tents or caravans.

The experiment was made,

taken to avoid anything like theatrical Gipsyism, or

mind, the writers have done their best to use simple

being often impossible to

new ideas correctly without exposing ourselves

done nothing towards forming a lengua

sham Gipsy, such

regard this as an infallible

was impossible without much

stand the simplest English verse.

read in a natural and prosaic manner, M'ithout dwell})lain

ing on the-rhymes or metre, will not be perfectly

indeed, I have amply satislied

There are many to wliom writing ballads

and almost unknown, save to a

a mere eccentric fancy.

maiiy has Ixton a subjijct of great interest to the

can be of some assistance to persons

who would study

that an Indian military friend of

Gipsy camp, and did his best to talk

occupants through the

Afterwards one of the Gipsies informed

friend talked "

werry bad Rommanis, but