[The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles G. Leland]@TWC D-Link book
The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER X
79/100

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.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books