Fair of Nijni-Novgovod_. By H. A.
Munro Butler Johnstone. 1875.

{42} _Seven Years in the Deserts of America_.

{61} In Old English Romany this is called _dorrikin_; in common parade,
_dukkerin_. Both forms are really old.

{68} Flower-flag-nation man; that is, American.

{69a} _Leadee_, reads.

{69b} _Dly_, dry.

{69c} _Lun_, run.

{82} Diamonds true. _O latcho bar_ (in England, _tatcho bar_), "the
true or real stone," is the gypsy for a diamond.

{97} Within a mile, Maginn lies buried, without a monument.

{108} _Mashing_, a word of gypsy origin (_mashdva_), meaning fascination
by the eye, or taking in.

{125} Goerres, _Christliche Mystik_, i. 296. 1. 23.

{134} _The Saxons in England_, i. 3.

{159} _Peru urphu_! "Increase and multiply!" _Vide_ Bodenschatz
_Kirchliche Verfassung der Juden_, part IV. ch. 4, sect. 2.

{209} _The Past in the Present_, part 2, lect. 3

{222} _Yoma_, fol. 21, col. 2.

{238} _Zimbel_. The cymbal of the Austrian gypsies is a stringed
instrument, like the zitter.

{241} _Crocus_, in common slang an itinerant quack, mountebank, or
seller of medicine; _Pitcher_, a street dealer.

{270} A brief _resume_ of the most characteristic gypsy mode of
obtaining property.

{279} Lady, in gypsy _rani_. The process of degradation is curiously
marked in this language. _Rani_ (_rawnee_), in Hindi, is a queen.
_Rye_, or _rae_, a gentleman, in its native land, is applicable to a
nobleman, while _rashai_, a clergyman, even of the smallest dissenting
type, rises in the original _rishi_ to a saint of the highest order.

{280} This was the very same affair and the same gypsies described and
mentioned on page 383 of _In Gypsy Tents_, by Francis Hindes Groome,
Edinburgh, 1880. I am well acquainted with them.

{285} _Primulaveris_: in German _Schlussel blume_, that is, key flowers;
also Mary's-keys and keys of heaven. Both the primrose and tulip are
believed in South Germany to be an Open Sesame to hidden treasure.

{292} Omar Khayyam, _Rubaiyat_.

{293} _Johnnykin and the Goblins_. London: Macmillan.

{302a} Vide _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, vol. xvi. part 2,
1856 p. 285.

{302b} _Die Zigeuner_.

{307a} _The Dialect of the English Gypsies_.

{307b} I beg the reader to bear it in mind that all this is literally as
it was given by an old gypsy, and that I am not responsible for its
accuracy or inaccuracy.

{317a} Literally, the earth