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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER X
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I work for the devil till I have got my dinner (one-o'clock food), and after that follow the Lord." GUDLO XXXI.

THE LITTLE GIPSY BOY AT THE SILVERSMITH'S.
A bitti chavo jalled adree the boro gav pash his dadas, an' they hatched taller the hev of a ruppenomengro's buddika sar pordo o' kushti-dickin covvas.

"O dadas," shelled the tikno chavo, "what a boro choromengro dovo mush must be to a' lelled so boot adusta rooys an' horas!" A tacho covva often dicks sar a hokkeny (huckeny) covva; an dovo's sim of a tacho mush, but a juva often dicks tacho when she isn't.
TRANSLATION.
A little boy went to the great village (_i.e_., London) with his father, and they stopped before the window of a silversmith's shop all full of pretty things.

"O father," cried the small boy, "what a great thief that man must be to have got so many spoons and watches!" A true thing often looks like a false one; and the same is true (and that's _same_) of a true man, but a girl often looks right when she is not.
GUDLO XXXII.

THE GIPSY'S DREAM.
Mandy sutto'd I was pirraben lang o' tute, an' I dicked mandy's pen odoi 'pre the choomber.


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