How do you do that ?" "Ah," said the gipsy, "I can't explain.

There it is.

I know by the sun, but I can't teach you, because you must live out of doors and never have a clock, or it's no good." "And can you tell it when there's no sun ?" Robert asked.
"Pretty well," said the man.
"How lucky you are!" said Horace.
"Well, I don't know," said the man.

"What about rain?
When it's raining hard, and we're huddling in the van and can't get any dry sticks for the fire, and our feet are soaked, what are you doing?
Why, you're all snug in your houses, with a real roof over you." "I'd much rather live in a caravan than a house," said Horace.
The man laughed.

"You're a young gent out for a spree," he said.