An' when len san sar jalled lug, the Rommany chals welled adoi an' latched adusta bitti barrels o' tatto-panni, an' fino covvas, for dovo mushis were 'mugglers, and the Roms lelled sar they mukked pali.

An' dovo sus a boro covva for the Rommany chals, an' they pii'd sar graias, an' the raklis an' juvas jalled in kushni heezis for booti divvuses.

An' dovo sus kerro pash Bo-Peep--a boro puvius adree bori chumures, pash Hastings in Sussex.
When 'mugglers nasher an' Rommany chals latch, there's kek worser cammoben for it.
TRANSLATION.
Once almost a hundred years now, when my father was a boy, one night many Gipsies were going together near the sea, when all at once the horses began whinnying and kicking and neighing, and making a great noise, and the Gipsies heard a crying out, and saw men running and rushing as if in alarm, from a great cave.

And when they were all gone away together, the Gipsies went there and found many little barrels of brandy, and valuables, for those men were smugglers, and the Gipsies took all they left behind.

And that was a great thing for the Gipsies, and they drank like horses, and the girls and women went in silk clothes for many days.
And that was done near Bo-Peep, a great field in the hills, by Hastings in Sussex.
When smugglers lose and Gipsies find, nobody is the worse for it.
FOOTNOTES {0a} The reason why Gipsy words have been kept unchanged was fully illustrated one day in a Gipsy camp in my hearing, when one man declaring of a certain word that it was only _kennick_ or slang, and not "Rommanis," added, "It can't be Rommanis, because everybody knows it.
When a word gets to be known to everybody, it's no longer Rommanis." {1} Lavengro and the Rommany Rye: London, John Murray.
{5} To these I would add "Zelda's Fortune," now publishing in the _Cornhill Magazine_.
{21} Educated Chinese often exercise themselves in what they call "handsome talkee," or "talkee leeson" (i.e., reason), by sitting down and uttering, by way of assertion and rejoinder, all the learned and wise sentences which they can recall.