[The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles G. Leland]@TWC D-Link bookThe English Gipsies and Their Language CHAPTER X 29/100
A rakli who was ladge of her tikno chored the baulo avree the gunno and chivved the chavi adree.
Pasch a waver hora the chi shooned the tikno rov (ruvving), and dicked adree the gunno in boro toob, and penned, "If the baulos in akovo tem puraben into chavos, sa do the chavos puraben adree ?" TRANSLATION. Once a woman went into a strange land, and she carried a bag on her back with a pig in it.
A girl who was ashamed of her child stole the pig from the bag and put the baby in (its place).
After an hour the woman heard the child cry, and looked into the bag with great amazement, and said, "If the pigs in this country change into children, into what do the children change ?" GUDLO XIII.
OF THE GIRL THAT WAS TO MARRY THE DEVIL. 'Pre yeck divvus a Rommany dye dukkered a rakli, and pookered laki that a kaulo rye kaumed her.
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