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And all the bags, and kettles, and things of the Gipsies were thrown and piled together behind the hedge in the churchyard, and no man touched them.
And three months after, the maid was preparing the pigs' food at the same house, when she found the linen cloth they lost three months (before) that day.
So the girl went with the cloth to her master, and said, "See what I did to those poor, poor Gipsies that were hung and transported for that trifle (there)!" And when they went to look at the Gipsies' things behind the hedge in the churchyard, the bags were full and burst, torn all to rags, and they found them full of silver things--spoons and knives of gold, and watches, cups and teapots, that had belonged to the Gipsies that were hung and transported.
{221a} GUDLO XVIII.
HOW THE GIPSY WENT TO CHURCH. Did mandy ever jal to kangry? Avali, dui koppas, and beshed a lay odoi. I was adree the tale tem o' sar, an' a rye putched mandy to well to kangry, an' I welled.
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