s _a man_.

{127} Since writing the above I have been told that among many Hindus
"(good) evening" is the common greeting at any time of the day. And more
recently still, meeting a gentleman who during twelve years in India had
paid especial attention to all the dialects, I greeted him, as an
experiment, with "Sarisham!" He replied, 'Why, that's more elegant than
common Hindu--it's Persian!" "Sarisham" is, in fact, still in use in
India, as among the Gipsies. And as the latter often corrupt it into
_sha'shan_, so the vulgar Hindus call it "shan!" Sarishan means in
Gipsy, "How are you?" but its affinity with _sarisham_ is evident.

{133} Miklosich ("Uber die Mundarten de der Zigeuner," Wien, 1872)
gives, it is true, 647 Rommany words of Slavonic origin, but many of
these are also Hindustani. Moreover, Dr Miklosich treats as Gipsy words
numbers of Slavonian words which Gipsies in Slavonian lands have
Rommanised, but which are not generally Gipsy.

{171} Fortune-telling.

{189} In Egypt, as in Syria, every child is more or less marked by
tattooing. Infants of the first families, even among Christians, are
thus stamped.

{206} The Royston rook or crow has a greyish-white back, but is with
this exception entirely black.

{209} The peacock and turkey are called lady-birds in Rommany, because,
as a Gipsy told me, "they spread out their clothes, and hold up their
heads and look fine, and walk proud, like great ladies." I have heard a
swan called a pauno rani chillico--a white lady-bird.

{210} To make skewers is a common employment among the poorer English
Gipsies.

{213} This rhyme and metre (such as they are) were purely accidental
with my narrator; but as they occurred _verb. et lit_., I set them down.

{218} This story is well known to most "travellers." It is also true,
the "hero" being a _pash-and-pash_, or half-blood Rommany chal, whose
name was told to me.

{219} The reader will find in Lord Lytton's "Harold" mention of an Anglo-
Saxon superstition very similar to that embodied in the story of the
Seven Whistlers. This story is, however, entirely Gipsy.

{221a} This, which is a common story among the English Gipsies, and told
exactly in the words here given, is implicitly believed in by them.
Unfortunately, the terrible legends, but too well authenticated, of the
persecutions to which their ancestors were subjected, render it very
probable that it may have occurred as narrated. When Gi