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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER X
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"Come out," cried the gentleman, "and I'll give you five pounds and a new coat!" "Will you give me a glass of brandy too ?" asked the Gipsy.

"Yes, yes," said the gentleman; "but for God's sake come out of the water!" "Well," exclaimed the Gipsy, "to oblige you, sir, I'll come out!" GUDLO XXX.

THE GIPSY AND HIS TWO MASTERS.
"Savo's tute's rye ?" putched a ryas mush of a Rommany chal.

"I've dui ryas," pooked the Rommany chal: "Duvel's the yeck an' beng's the waver.
Mandy kairs booti for the beng till I've lelled my yeckora habben, an' pallers mi Duvel pauli ajaw." TRANSLATION.
"Who is your master ?" asked a gentleman's servant of a Gipsy.

"I've two masters," said the Gipsy: "God is the one, and the devil is the other.


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