_Hanimals_ is critters that have something queer about 'em, such as the lions an' helephants at the well-gooroos (fairs), or cows with five legs, or won'ful piebald grais--_them's_ hanimals.

But Christins aint hanimals.

Them's _mushis_" (men).
To return to cats: it is remarkable that the colour which makes a cat desirable should render a bowl or cup objectionable to a true Gipsy, as I have elsewhere observed in commenting on the fact that no old-fashioned Rommany will drink, if possible, from white crockery.

But they have peculiar fancies as to other colours.

Till within a few years in Great Britain, as at the present day in Germany, their fondness for green coats amounted to a passion.