{87} This practice is not so uncommon. Dr. Johnson had a very similar habit in his "sort of magical movement" (Life by Boswell, end of year 1764); and a member of my own college at Oxford, nearly thirty years ago, touched just like the man in _Lavengro_. Once in the Schools he remembered he had passed by a pebble which he had noticed in the High Street: he tore up his papers, and went and picked up the pebble. {88} Mr. William Bodham Donne, the examiner of plays 1857-74, was told by Borrow himself that this "Man who Touched" was drawn from the author of _Vathek_, William Beckford (1760-1844). There are difficulties in the way of accepting this statement, among them that Beckford had quitted Fonthill for Bath in 1822, three years before Borrow went a-gypsying. Still, I believe there is something in it. {114} A thing done oftener in books than in reality. {121} Richard Hurrell Froude in a letter of 1831 brands Dissenters as "the promoters of damnable heresy." {139} A branch of the great Gypsy family of Boswell have contracted the surname to Boss. {142} At Tamworth in May 1812 (Knapp, i. 105). {156} The Gypsy lass And the Gypsy lad Shall go to-morrow To poison the pig And bewitch the horse Of the farmer gentleman. {160} The Gypsy lass And the Gypsy lad Love stealing And fortune-telling, And lying, And every _-pen_ But goodness And truth. {161} Dog. Better, _jukel_. {165a} By my God; not Anglo-Romany. {165b} Coppersmith. {167} Grand-aunt's. {168} Cake. {169} Rod. {170} Aunt. {174a} Poisoned. {174b} Fortune-telling spirit. I never met the English Gypsy that used _dook_. {177} Gentile's coming. {188} In my _Gypsy Folk-Tales_ (1899, pp. 293-95) I have discussed with some fulness Bunyan's possible Gypsy ancestry. The most interesting point is that in 1586 at Launceston a child was baptized "Nicholas, sonne of James Bownian, an Egiptian rogue." {201} Ellis Wynn (_c._ 1671-1741). Borrow himself at last printed his translation of _The Sleeping Bard_ at Yarmouth in 1860, and himself next year reviewed it in the _Quarterly_. {238} Rhys Prichard (1579-1644). {246} Hat of beaver. {247} Good day, brother. {249a} Seems meant for "hang-woman," but there is no such word. {249b} Gipsy-wise--an odd form. {250a} Good old blood. Should be _rat_, not _rati_. {250b} Horse. {251} Brother, comrade. {252a} Aunt. {252b} Poisoning pigs. {253a} Poisons; not Anglo-Romany. {253b} Better, _nashado_, hanged. {254a} Magistrate. {254b} Runner, detective. {255a} Woman. Rightly _juvel_. {255b} No such word. {256} Seemingly "gallows," but no such word. {257a} Gypsy chap. {257b} _Engro_ is a mere termination, like _-er_ in _runner_. {259} Fool. {260} Fists. Prizefighters' slang. {263} Blacksmith. {264a} Tell fortunes. {264b} Hill Town, Norwich, but better, _Chumba Gav_. {264c} "Go with God." Not English Romany. {267} Horse-shoe. {268a} Better, _yogesko chivs_.