Note 18 — Chapter II · ROUMANIAN-GYPSY STORIES
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‘ “We told stories sometimes, romantic tales some; others blackguard kind of tales, about bad women; and others about thieving and roguery; not so much about what they’d done themselves, as about some big thief that was very clever and could trick anybody. Not stories such as Dick Turpin or Jack Sheppard, or things that’s in history, but inventions. I used to say when I was telling a story—for I’ve told one story that I invented till I learnt it. [I give this story to show what are the objects of admiration with these vagrants18]:—