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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER X
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Some must travel, and cannot keep still.
GUDLO VI.

HOW THE GIPSY BRIBED THE POLICEMAN.
Once apre a chairus a Rommany chal chored a rani chillico (or chiriclo), and then jalled atut a prastramengro 'pre the drum.

"Where did tute chore adovo rani ?" putchered the prastramengro.

"It's kek rani; it's a pauno rani that I kinned 'dree the gav to del tute." "Tacho," penned the prastramengro, "it's the kushtiest pauno rani mandy ever dickdus.

Ki did tute kin it ?" Avali, many's the chairus mandy's tippered a trinmushi to a prastramengro ta mukk mandy hatch my tan with the chavvis.
TRANSLATION.
Once on a time a Gipsy stole a turkey, and then met a policeman on the road.


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