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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER IX
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I know a fine field for the horses; we'll stop there in the morning, before they find we have been there, and go on the road and eat our food." "I suppose that you often have had trouble with the _gavengroes_ (police) when you wished to pitch your tent ?" Now it was characteristic of this Gipsy, as of many others, that when interested by a remark or a question, he would reply by bursting into some picture of travel, drawn from memory.

So he answered by saying-- "They hunnelo'd the choro puro mush by pennin' him he mustn't hatch odoi.
'What's tute ?' he pens to the prastramengro; 'I'll del you thrin bar to lel your chuckko offus an' koor mandy.

You're a ratfully jucko an' a huckaben.'" _English_--They angered the poor old man by telling him he must not stop there.

"What are you ?" he said to the policeman, "I'll give you three pounds to take your coat off and fight me.

You're a bloody dog and a lie" (liar).
"I suppose you have often taken your coat off ?" "Once I lelled it avree an' never chivved it apre ajaw." (_I.e_., "Once I took it off and never put it on again.") "How was that ?" "Yeckorus when I was a tano mush, thirty besh kenna--rummed about pange besh, but with kek chavis--I jalled to the prasters of the graias at Brighton.


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