Show gypsy wordless language tp communicate c with one another gypsies now use letters and they use the telegraph too when necessary especially in this country but the modern romany also follows the patt pat teran cran tracing the footsteps foot stepa or wagon tracks of his friends on the road by tho the same method employed by his ancient prototype reading directions ions where no words are written as clearly as the gorgio does a roadside signboard but the pat teran can be read by the gypsy only it la Is hidden and secret although it may be in plain sight as a signboard Is open and public the pat teran may be formed of sticks or stones or grass placed cross fashion at the parting of roads in such manner that only a gypsy would instantly notice and understand der stand to him it means muc much h first of all the direction taken b by romany predecessors from riley al pletcher fletcher berrys barrys the american gyp sy to in the century |