. . .Gudlo pesham, [48] and Piramus played the tune of the same name, which, as you know, means the honeycomb, the song and the tune being well entitled to the name, being p. 49wonderfully sweet.  Well, everybody present seemed mighty well pleased with the song and music, with the exception of one person, a carroty-haired Scotch body; how he came there I don’t know, but there he was; and coming forward, he began in Scotch as broad as a barndoor, to find fault with the music and the song, saying that he had never heard viler stuff than either.  Well, brother, out of consideration for the civil gentry with whom the fellow had come, I held my peace for a long time, and in order to get the subject changed, I said to Mikailia in Romany, ‘you have told the ladies their fortunes, now tell the gentlemen theirs, quick, quick—pen lende dukkerin. [49]  Well, brother, the Scotchman, I suppose, thinking I was speaking ill of him, fell into a greater passion than before, . . . Read More