[The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles G. Leland]@TWC D-Link bookThe English Gipsies and Their Language CHAPTER IX 60/68
(I knew a man once that had a pair of shoes made with the two heels reversed, to go a-thieving with.) But if you are followed by dogs, and put red pepper in your shoes, it will spoil the scent of the dogs. "And if you throw red pepper where dogs make water, they will not go there any more after they smell it, and you can keep it clean." "Well," I replied, "I see that a great many things can be learned from the Gipsies.
Tell me, now, when you wanted a night's lodging did you ever go to a union ?" "Kek, rya; the tramps that jal langs the drum an' mang at the unions are kek Rommany chals.
The Rommany never kair dovo--they'd sooner besh in the bavol puv firstus.
We'd putch the farming rye for mukkaben to hatch the ratti adree the granja,but we'd sooner suv under the bor in the bishnoo than jal adree the chuvveny-ker.
The Rommany chals aint sim to tramps, for they've got a different drum into 'em." In English: "No, sir; the tramps that go along the road and beg at the unions are not Gipsies.
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