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In their conversation and on their crockery, before every house and behind every counter, the elegant formula makes its appearance, teaching people not merely _how_ to think, but what should be thought, and when. {24} Probably from the modern Greek [Greek text], the sole of the foot, _i.e_., a track.
Panth, a road, Hindustani. {26} Pott: "Die Zigeuner in Europa and Asien," vol.ii, p.
293. {30} Two hundred (shel) years growing, two hundred years losing his coat, two hundred years before he dies, and then he loses all his blood and is no longer good. {32} The words of the Gipsy, as I took them down from his own lips, were as follows:-- "Bawris are kushto habben.
You can latcher adusta 'pre the bors.
When they're pirraben pauli the puvius, or tale the koshters, they're kek kushti habben.
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