Part 50

{42} Seven Years in the Deserts of America.

{61} In Old English Romany this is called dorrikin; in common parade, dukkerin. Both forms are really old.

{68} Flower-flag-nation man; that is, American.

{69a} Leadee, reads.

{69b} Dly, dry.

{69c} Lun, run.

{82} Diamonds true. O latcho bar (in England, tatcho bar), "the true or real stone," is the gypsy for a diamond.

{97} Within a mile, Maginn lies buried, without a monument.

{108} Mashing, a word of gypsy origin (mashdva), meaning fascination by the eye, or taking in.

{125} Goerres, Christliche Mystik, i. 296. 1. 23.

{134} The Saxons in England, i. 3.

{159} Peru urphu! "Increase and multiply!" Vide Bodenschatz Kirchliche Verfassung der Juden, part IV. ch. 4, sect. 2.

{209} The Past in the Present, part 2, lect. 3

{222} Yoma, fol. 21, col. 2.

{238} Zimbel. The cymbal of the Austrian gypsies is a stringed instrument, like the zitter.

{241} Crocus, in common slang an itinerant quack, mountebank, or seller of medicine; Pitcher, a street dealer.

{270} A brief resume of the most characteristic gypsy mode of obtaining property.

{279} Lady, in gypsy rani. The process of degradation is curiously marked in this language. Rani (rawnee), in Hindi, is a queen. Rye, or rae, a gentleman, in its native land, is applicable to a nobleman, while rashai, a clergyman, even of the smallest dissenting type, rises in the original rishi to a saint of the highest order.

{280} This was the very same affair and the same gypsies described and mentioned on page 383 of In Gypsy Tents, by Francis Hindes Groome, Edinburgh, 1880. I am well acquainted with them.

{285} Primulaveris: in German Schlussel blume, that is, key flowers; also Mary's-keys and keys of heaven. Both the primrose and tulip are believed in South Germany to be an Open Sesame to hidden treasure.

{292} Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat.

{293} Johnnykin and the Goblins. London: Macmillan.

{302a} Vide Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xvi. part 2, 1856 p. 285.

{302b} Die Zigeuner.

{307a} The Dialect of the English Gypsies.

{307b} I beg the reader to bear it in mind that all this is literally as it was given by an old gypsy, and that I am not responsible for its accuracy or inaccuracy.

{317a} Literally, the earth-sewer.

{317b} Kali foki. Kalo means, as in Hindustani, not only black, but also lazy. Pronounced kaw-lo.