'How much do you get for carryin' that there bundle ?' 'A sixpence, rya!' says I.

'It's twice as much as you ought to have,' says he; 'an' I'd be glad to carry it myself for the money.' 'All right, sir,' says I, touchin' my hat and goin' off, for he was a wery nice gentleman.

Rya," he exclaimed, with an air of placid triumph, "do you think the head-police his selfus would a spoke in them wery words to me if he hadn't a thought I was a good man ?" "Well, let's get to work, old Honesty.

What is the Rommanis for to hide ?" "To _gaverit_ is to hide anything, rya.

_Gaverit_." And to illustrate its application he continued-- "They penned mandy to gaver the gry, but I nashered to keravit, an' the mush who lelled the gry welled alangus an' dicked it." ("They told me to hide the horse, but I forgot to do it, and the man who _owned_ the horse came by and saw it.") It is only a few hours since I heard of a gentleman who took incredible pains to induce the Gipsies to teach him their language, but never succeeded.