George Borrow

“ I, for one, will never laugh at the dukkerin dook. Sick again; I wish he was gone.'
'He'll soon be gone, bebee; let's leave him. He's as good as gone; look there, he's dead.'
'No, he's not, he'll get up—I feel it; can't we hasten him?'
'Hasten him! yes, to be sure; set the dog upon him. Here, juggal, look in there, my dog.'
The dog made its appearance at the door of the tent, and began to bark and tear up the ground. ”

“ It is my grandbebee's cake which was sent because you were kind to the poor person's child; eat, brother, eat, and we shall be like the children in the wood that the gorgios speak of.'
'The children in the wood had nothing to eat.'
'Yes, they had hips and haws; we have better. Eat, brother.'
'See, sister, I do,' and I ate a piece of the cake.
'Well, brother, how do you like it?' said the girl, looking fixedly at me.
'It is very rich and sweet, and yet there is something strange about it; I don't think I shall eat any more.'
'Fie, brother, fie, to find fault with the poor person's cake ”

“ Tip it him Romanly, child.'
'He has heard it Romanly already, bebee; 'twas by that I found him out, as I told you.'
'Halloo, sir, are you sleeping? you have taken drows; the gentleman makes no answer. God give me patience!'
'And what if he doesn't, bebee; isn't he poisoned like a hog? Gentleman, indeed! why call him gentleman? if he ever was one he's broke, and is now a tinker, a worker of blue metal.'
'That's his way, child, to-day a tinker, to-morrow something else; and as for being drabbed, I don't know what to say about it.'
'Not drabbed! what do you mean, bebee? but look there, bebee ”

“ I could bear my agonies no longer, and I fell into a trance or swoon. How long I continued therein I know not; on recovering, however, I felt somewhat better, and attempted to lift my head off my couch; the next moment, however, the qualms and pains returned, if possible, with greater violence than before. ”

“ The dog barked violently, and seemed about to spring at my face, but retreated.
'The dog won't fly at him, child; he flashed at the dog with his eye, and scared him. He'll get up.'
'Nonsense, bebee! you make me angry; how should he get up?'
'The dook tells me so, and, what's more, I had a dream. I thought I was at York, standing amidst a crowd to see a man hung, and the crowd shouted, "There he comes!" and I looked, and lo! it was the tinker ”

“ I found that the name of Slingsby was well known in these parts.
'If you are a friend of Slingsby you must be an honest lad,' said an ancient crone; 'you shall never want for work whilst I can give it you. ”

“ After the death of my husband, who came to his end untimeously, I went to live with a daughter of mine, married out among certain Romans who walk about the eastern counties, and with whom for some time I found a home and pleasant society, for they lived right Romanly, which gave my heart considerable satisfaction, who am a Roman born, and hope to die so. ”