[The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles G. Leland]@TWC D-Link bookThe English Gipsies and Their Language CHAPTER IX 55/68
And as they were gillerin' and huljerin' him, Samson chivved his wasters kettenus the boro chongurs of the sturaben, and bongered his kokerus adree, an sar the ker pet a lay with a boro gudli, an' sar the pooro mushis were mullered an' the ker poggered to bitti cutters." "Samson was a great man, very fierce and expert at fighting, so that he drove all men away, and they were afraid of him.
He was so strong that once when he broke into a house, and it had a great iron door, he just put it on his back, and carried it away and went home and sold it. "One day he caught some foxes, and tied firebrands to their tails and let them go.
And they ran away like old devils, early in the morning, when all the people were asleep, across the field, and burned all the wheat. "Then the king sent his men to take Samson, but he hurt them, and half killed the whole of them; they could not injure him, and he compelled them to run for life.
And because they could not capture him by fighting, they did it otherwise by an opposite way.
Now Samson was a man full of life, very fond of the girls, so they got a very pretty woman to cajole and coax him.
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