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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER X
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An' that sims the story tute pookered mandy of the Seven Stars.
TRANSLATION.
Sir, the story of the Seven Whistlers, you know, is in the Scriptures--so they told me.
An' the Seven Whistlers are seven spirits of ladies that go by the night, through the air, over the heaven, like birds.

And it tells (us) in the Bible that the Seven Whistlers whistle wherever they fly across the air.
But a long time ago one went away and got lost, and now there are only six; but they call them the Seven Whistlers.

And that is like the story you told me of the Seven Stars.

{219} GUDLO XVII.

AN OLD STORY WELL KNOWN TO ALL GIPSIES.
A Rommany rakli yeckorus jalled to a ker a-dukkerin'.


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