known in this country long before the Gipseys paid it a visit,—perhaps the only negative good that can be said in their favour. _Harman_, in the year 1566, wrote a singular, not to say droll book, entitled, _A Caveat for commen Cvrsetors, vulgarley called Vagabones, newly augmented and inlarged_, wherein the history and various descriptions of rogues and vagabonds are given, together with their canting tongue. This book, the earliest of the kind, gives the singular fact that within a dozen years after the landing of the Gipseys, companies of English vagrants were formed, places of meeting appointed, districts for plunder and begging operations marked out, and rules agreed to for their common management. In some cases Gipseys joined the English gangs, in others English vagrants joined the Gipseys. The fellowship was found convenient and profitable, as both parties were aliens to the laws and customs of the country, living in a great measure in the open air, apart from the lawful public, and often meeting each other on the same bye-path, or in the same retired valley;—but seldom intermarrying, and entirely adopting each other’s habits. The common people, too, soon began to consider them as of one family,—all rogues, and from Egypt. The secret language spoken by the Gipseys, principally Hindoo and extremely barbarous to English ears, was found incomprehensible and very difficult to learn. The Gipseys, also, found the same difficulty with the English language. A rude, rough, and most singular compromise was made, and a mixture of Gipsey, Old English, newly-coined words, and cribbings from any foreign, and therefore secret language, mixed and jumbled together, formed what has ever since been known as the CANTING LANGUAGE, or PEDLER’S FRENCH; or, during the past century, ST. GILES’ GREEK. Such was the origin of CANT; and in illustration of its blending with the Gipsey or Cingari tongue, dusky and Oriental from the sunny plains of Central Asia, I am enabled to give the accompanying list of Gipsey, and often Hindoo words, with, in many instances, their English adoptions. _Gipsey._ _English._ BAMBOOZLE, to perplex or BAMBOOZLE, to delude, cheat, mislead by hiding. _Mod Gip._ or make a fool of any one. BOSH, rubbish, nonsense, BOSH, stupidity, foolishness. offal. _Gipsey and Persian._ CHEESE, thing or article, CHEESE, or CHEESY, a “that’s the CHEESE,” or first-rate or very good thing. _Gipsey and Hindoo._ article. CHIVE, the tongue. _Gipsey._ CHIVE, or CHIVEY, a shout, or loud-tongued. DADE, or DADI, a father. DADDY, nursery term for _Gipsey._ father.[9] DISTARABIN, a prison. _Gipsey._ STURABIN, a prison.