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Title: The Romany Rye
a sequel to "Lavengro"

Author: George Borrow

Editor: Theodore Watts-Dunton

Release Date: April 24, 2007 [eBook #21206]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1900 Ward, Lock and Co. edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

THE
ROMANY RYE:

A SEQUEL TO "LAVENGRO."

BY
GEORGE BORROW,
AUTHOR OF
"THE BIBLE IN SPAIN," "THE GYPSIES OF SPAIN," ETC.

_WITH SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY_
THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON

"Fear God, and take your own part."

LONDON
WARD, LOCK AND CO. LIMITED
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE

{Horncastle horse fair in the olden days. (From an old Water colour.):
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ADVERTISEMENT.

It having been frequently stated in print that the book called "Lavengro"
was got up expressly against the popish agitation, in the years 1850-51,
the author takes this opportunity of saying that the principal part of
that book was written in the year '43, that the whole of it was completed
before the termination of the year '46, and that it was in the hands of
the publisher in the year '48. And here he cannot forbear observing,
that it was the duty of that publisher to have rebutted a statement which
he knew to be a calumny; and also to have set the public right on another
point dealt with in the Appendix to the present work, more especially as
he was the proprietor of a review enjoying, however undeservedly, a
certain sale and reputation.

"But take your own part, boy!
For if you don't, no one will take it for you."

With respect to "Lavengro," the author feels that he has no reason to be
ashamed of it. In writing that book he did his duty, by pointing out to
his country people the nonsense which, to the greater part of them, is as
the breath of their nostrils, and which, if indulged in, as it probably
will be, to the same extent as hitherto, will, within a very few years,
bring the land which he most loves beneath a foreign yoke: he d