And I must confess that it was with great interest I learned that the Gipsies, from a very singular and Rommany point of view, respect, and even pay him, in common with the peasantry in some parts of England, a peculiar honour.

For this reason I bade the Gipsy carefully repeat his words, and wrote them down accurately.

I give them in the original, with a translation.

Let me first state that my informant was not quite clear in his mind as to whether the Boro Divvus, or Great Day, was Christmas or New Year's, nor was he by any means certain on which Christ was born.

But he knew very well that when it came, the Gipsies took great pains to burn an ash-wood fire.
"Avali--adusta cheirus I've had to jal dui or trin mees of a Boro Divvus sig' in the sala, to lel ash-wood for the yag.