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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER X
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It stinks worse than a dead horse!" Great men and small men sometimes like (agree in liking things) that which other people do not understand.
GUDLO XXIV.

THE GIPSY AND THE "VISITING-CARDS." Yeckorus a choro Rommany chal dicked a rani hatch taller the wuder of a boro ker an' mukked adovo a bitti lil.

Then he putched the rakli, when the rani jessed avree, what the lil kaired.

Adoi the rakli pukkered lesco it was for her rani ta jin kun'd welled a dick her.

"Avali!" penned the Rommany chal; "_that's_ the way the Gorgios mukks their patteran! _We_ mukks char apre the drum." The grai mukks his pirro apre the drum, an' the sap kairs his trail adree the puv.
TRANSLATION.
Once a poor Gipsy saw a lady stop before the door of a great house and left there a card (little letter).


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