Chapter II

Spurious Gypsy Poetry of Andalusia 298 Brijindope.—The Deluge 304 The Pestilence 310 On the Language of the Gitános 313 Robber Language 335 The Term ‘Busno’ 354 Specimens of Gypsy Dialects 357 Vocabulary of their Language 365 APPENDIX Miscellanies in the Gitáno Language 415 The English Dialect of the Rommany 428

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Gypsy’s Marriage Dance (_photogravure_) _Frontispiece_ The Rearguard of the Marching Gypsies _To face page_ 50 Travellers attacked by the Gitános 52 A Song of Egypt 108 The Gypsy Smith of Granada 196 The Murder of Pindamonas by Pepe Conde 198 Roasting Chestnuts by the side of the 200 Guadalquiver A Gypsy Family 222

THE GYPSIES