“Ah! I understand; I am sorry for them. And so you are here alone?”
“Not quite alone, brother.”
“No, not alone; but with the rest—Tawno Chikno takes care of you.”
“Takes care of me, brother!”
“Yes, stands to you in the place of a father—keeps you out of harm’s way.”
“What do you take me for, brother?”
“For about three years older than myself.”
“Perhaps; but you are of the Gorgios, and I am a Rommany Chal. Tawno Chikno take care of Jasper Petulengro!” [161]
“Is that your name?”
“Don’t you like it?”