This is done, and the Rommany _dye_ adroitly making up a parcel resembling the one laid down, steals the latter, leaving the former.
Mr Barrow calls this _hokkeny baro_, the great swindle.

I may remark, by the way, that among jugglers and "show-people" sleight of hand is called _hanky panky_.

"Hocus-pocus" is attributed by several writers to the Gipsies, a derivation which gains much force from the fact, which I have never before seen pointed out, that _hoggu bazee_, which sounds very much like it, means in Hindustani legerdemain.

English Gipsies have an extraordinary fancy for adding the termination _us_ in a most irregular manner to words both Rommany and English.

Thus _kettene_ (together) is often changed to _kettenus_, and _side_ to _sidus_.