While I am thus showing off my small acquaintance with the _Romany_ language, I must notice a few words of French slang which our thieves have borrowed from the gipsies. From _Les Mysteres de Paris_ honest folk have learned that the word _chourin_ means “a knife.” This is pure _Romany_--_tchouri_ is one of the words which is common to every dialect. Monsieur Vidocq calls a horse _gres_--this again is a gipsy word--_gras_, _gre_, _graste_, and _gris_. Add to this the word _romanichel_, by which the gipsies are described in Parisian slang. This is a corruption of _romane tchave_--“gipsy lads.” But a piece of etymology of which I am really proud is that of the word _frimousse_, “face,” “countenance”--a word which every schoolboy uses, or did use, in my time. Note, in the first place, the Oudin, in his curious dictionary, published in 1640, wrote the word _firlimouse_. Now in _Romany_, _firla_, or _fila_, stands for “face,” and has the same meaning--it is exactly the _os_ of the Latins. The combination of _firlamui_ was instantly understood by a genuine gipsy, and I believe it to be true to the spirit of the gipsy language. I have surely said enough to give the readers of Carmen a favourable idea of my _Romany_ studies. I will conclude with the following proverb, which comes in very appropriately: _En retudi panda nasti abela macha_. “Between closed lips no fly can pass.”