TRANSLATION.
On a day a Royston rook [{206}] went among the crows (black birds), and they asked him, “Where did you steal your white coat?” And he told (them), “I stole it from a fool of a pigeon.” Then he went among the pigeons and said, “How are you, brothers?” And they asked him, “Where did you get those black trousers and sleeves?” And he said, “I stole ’em from those wretches the rooks.”
Half-breeds call themselves Gorgio among Gorgios, and Gipsy among Gipsies.