[Lavengro by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookLavengro CHAPTER XVII 5/10
I sees a jolly pig in the yard, and I says to my sister, speaking Rommany, 'Do so and so,' says I; which the farming man hearing, asks what we are talking about.
'Nothing at all, master,' says I; 'something about the weather;' when who should start up from behind a pale, where he has been listening, but this ugly gorgio, crying out, 'They are after poisoning your pigs, neighbour!' so that we are glad to run, I and my sister, with perhaps the farm-engro shouting after us. Says my sister to me, when we have got fairly off, 'How came that ugly one to know what you said to me ?' Whereupon I answers, 'It all comes of my son Jasper, who brings the gorgio to our fire, and must needs be teaching him.' 'Who was fool there ?' says my sister.
'Who, indeed, but my son Jasper,' I answers.
And here should I be a greater fool to sit still and suffer it; which I will not do.
I do not like the look of him; he looks over-gorgeous.
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