Part 2 (2/2)
”So you call a snail”--
”A bawris,” said the old fortune-teller
”Bawris! The Hungarian Gipsies call it a _bouro_ But in Geroli I wonder why a snail should be a stargoli”
”I know,” cried the brother, eagerly ”When you put a snail on the fire it cries out and squeaks just like a little child Stargoli means 'four cries'”
I hadderivation, but said nothing The sa asked what he would call a _roan_ horse in Rorai”--a fish-horse
”Why a rai?”
”Because a fish has a roan (_ie_, roe), hasn't it? Leastways I can't come no nearer to it, if it ain't that”
But he did better when I was puzzling my brain, as the learned Pott and Zippel had done before in of churro or tchurro, ”a ball, or anything round,” when he suggested--
”Rya--I should say that as a _churro_ is round, and a _curro_ or cup is round, and they both sound alike and look alike, it ” {33}
”Can you tellto a topic which, by the way, I have observed is like that of the hedgehog, a favourite one with Gipsies
”Yes; you can cure warts with the big black kind that have no shells”
”You ”
”Why, that's one of the things that everybody knows When you get a wart on your hands, you go on to the road or into the field till you find a slug, one of the large kind with no shell (literally, with no house upon hie, and as the snail dies, one day after the other, for four or five days, the ill die away Many a tiios have done it, and the warts have gone away (literally, cleaned away) froan to inquire very politely if s were offensive to me; and as I assured hi by experience that nothing isChippeways or Gipsies, than that s, {35} I produced a siven to entleman who has the aive them to his friends under the express condition that they shall be smoked, and not laid away as relics of the past If you _ circles, dear readers, you will at once knohom I refer
The quick eye of the Gipsy at once observed ler_--a crow-pipe,” he remarked
”Why a crow-pipe?”
”I don't know Solers_, or dead o There are places in England where you can find 'em by dozens in the fields I never dicked (saw) one with so long a stem to it as yours And they're old, very old What is it you call it before everything” (here he see?”
”The Creation”
”Avali--that's it, the Creation Well, thelers was kaired at the same time; they're hundreds--avali--thousands of beshes (years) old
And soler the beng”
”Why?”
”Because the devil lives in smoke”
CHAPTER III THE GIPSY TINKER