BENITA, THE GIPSY QUEEN
Ah, cara mia! You come on over a-here, yeahs ? I tella you nice-a-ting, no? You come-a to me, ducky, ha? I treat-a you right: tella you fortune, hn? Firsta of all you just crossum a-my palm a-wid-a leedle sixpence. Hm ?
I be-a nice to you, yeahs,sweetie? Tell-a you alia pretty ting, no? Whatever you wanna a-know,darleeng, Benita she tella you, so? Just-a one leedle a-tiny silver a-sixpence, an’ Benita she say alia da nice a-ting you want her to say. Come onnn! Anything a-you wanna me to say for sixpence. Yes? I bring-a you luck. Yes? I give-a you lucky mascot. No? I a-promise you everything in alia world . on’y sixpence. Come, a-den, sweet a-little ducky chicken, eh? (VOICE FROM THE BACK OF THE CROWD): “Don’t you, Vi. She’s a fake. She wants to hear what you want her to say and then she says it. “She’d promise anybody anything for a tanner. “And when she gets the tanner, she asks for another bob. “You never know where you are with her. Come away and don’t have any truck with her: everybody’s wise to that old fraud.”
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 38, 30 August 1940, Page 2
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