Both admitted that there was a great elder grown up God (the _baro puro dewel_), and a smaller younger God (the _tikno tarno dewel_).

But the wife maintained, appealing to Mr Liebich for confirmation, that the great God no longer reigned, having abdicated in favour of the Son, while the husband declared that the Great older God died long ago, and that the world was now governed by the little God who was, however, not the son of his predecessor, but of a poor carpenter.
I have never heard of any such nonsense among the English wandering Gipsies with regard to Christianity, but at the same time I must admit that their ideas of what the Bible contains are extremely vague.

One day I was sitting with an old Gipsy, discussing Rommany matters, when he suddenly asked me what the word was in the _waver temmeny jib_, or foreign Gipsy, for The Seven Stars.
"That would be," I said, "the _Efta Sirnie_.

I suppose your name for it is the Hefta Pens.

There is a story that once they were seven sisters, but one of them was lost, and so they are called seven to this day--though there are only six.