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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER X
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And just as he found it, some Gipsies came by and saw this Rommany.

So Smith bawled out to them, "A fine pig! all fat! come in the morning and you shall have half." And they returned in the morning and got half, all right.

And ever since it has been a saying with the Gipsies, "It's _all fat_; come in the morning and get your half." GUDLO XLI.

THE GIPSY'S FISH-HOOK.
Yeckorus a rye pookered a Rommany chal he might jal matchyin' 'dree his panni, and he'd del lester the cammoben for trin mushi, if he'd only matchy with a bongo sivv an' a punsy-ran.

So the Rom jalled with India- drab kaired apre moro, an' he drabbered saw the matchas adree the panni, and rikkered avree his wardo sar pordo.


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