With the same high-spirited eagerness, and a flask full of local fire-water, he would run into taverns, caves, shepherd huts and gypsy camps, hungry to pick up the unknown language and join in.
Women and children scatter to avoid a police raid at a gypsy camp hidden in a forest outside Moscow.
Not much "listening" went on before Italian MOBS burnt down Roma gypsy camps recently, with the seeming approval of some local politicians.
For instance, it breaks no law to clear French gypsy camps.
