thought "how I had lost her for ever,
and how happy I might have been with her in the New World."

DWELLERS IN THE DINGLE,
AND SOME OTHERS.

MEN.

LAVENGRO, _the autobiographer_, _scholar and philologist_ (Lavengro=_word-
master_); _known among the road-faring folk as the Romany rye_, _or young
squire turned gypsy_.

JASPER PETULENGRO, _a Romany kral or tribal chief_, _horse-dealer and
blacksmith_ (petulengro=_lord of the horseshoe_). "_The Gypsy_."

FRASER, _a popish emissary or propagandist_, _known as the_ "_man in
black_." "_The Priest_."

TAWNO CHIKNO, _the little one_, _so called on account of his immense
size_; _the_ "_Antinous of the dusky people_;" _a great horseman and_
JASPER'S _brother-in-law_.

SYLVESTER, _another brother-in-law_, _an ill-conditioned fellow_, "_the
Lazarus of the Romany tribe_."

BLACK _or_ BLAZING JOHN BOSVILLE (_Anselo Herne_), "_the flaming tinman_"
_a_ "_half-in-half_" _itinerant tinker and bruiser_.

CATCHPOLE, _the landlord of a small inn_, _two miles from the Dingle_,
_and not far from Willenhall in Staffordshire_.

MR. HUNTER, _a radical_, _who wears a snuff-coloured coat and frequents
the inn above named_.

_A postilion_, _whose headquarters are The Swan_, _Stafford_.

WOMEN.

ISOPEL _or_ BELLE BERNERS, _the beauteous queen of the Dingle_.

GREY MOLL, _wife of_ BOSVILLE, _the flying tinker_.

_A niece of the landlord of the inn_.

_The three daughters of Mrs. Herne_:--

PAKOMOVNA, (MRS.) PETULENGRO,

MIKAILIA, (MRS.) CHIKNO.

URSULA, _widow of_ LAUNCELOT LOVELL, _who subsequently marries_
SYLVESTER.

ANIMALS.

AMBROL (_in gypsy_=_a pear_), LAVENGRO'S _little gry or pony_.

TRAVELLER, _a donkey_ (_gypsy_, _mailla_), _belonging to_ ISOPEL BERNERS.

THE SCENE _is laid under the greenwood tree_, _in the height of an
English summer_.

THE DINGLE _is a deep_, _wooded_, _and consequently somewhat gloomy_,
_hollow in the middle of a very large_, _desolate field_. _The shelving
sides of the hollow are overgrown with trees and bushes. A belt of
sallows crowns the circular edge of the small crater_. _At the lowest
part of the Dingle are discovered a stone and a fire of charcoal_, _from
which spot a winding path ascends to_ "_the plain_." _On either side of
the fire is a small encampment. One consists of a small pony cart and a
small hut-shaped tent_, _occupied by the word-master_. _On the other
side is erected a kind of tent_, _co