He was a good gentleman, and his lady was as good as her husband.
There was another man playing; and I said, "Set the sticks more back, set 'em there; don't go further or he'll get all the things! Set 'em back!" A Gipsy girl talked to the gentlemen (_i.e_., persuaded them to play), and got fifteen shillings from one.

And no more to-day from your dear brother, M.
* * * * * One thing in the foregoing letter is worth noting.

Every remark or incident occurring in it is literally true--drawn from life--_pur et simple_.

It is, indeed, almost the _resume_ of the entire life of many poor Gipsies during the summer.

And I may add that the language in which it is written, though not the "deep" or grammatical Gipsy, in which no English words occur--as for instance in the Lord's Prayer, as given by Mr Borrow in his appendix to the Gipsies in Spain {70}--is still really a fair specimen of the Rommany of the present day, which is spoken at races by cock-shysters and fortune-tellers.
The "Water Village," from which it is dated, is the generic term among Gipsies for all towns by the sea-side.