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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER II
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So she never had any, nor any cross either.
"Then he asked the ass to carry him, and she said 'Yes;' so he put a cross upon her back.

And to this day the ass has a cross and bears young, but the mule has none.

So the asses belong to (are peculiar to) the Gipsies." There was a pause, when I remarked-- "That is a _fino gudlo_--a fine story; and all of it about an ash tree.
Can you tell me anything about the _surrelo rukk_--the strong tree--the oak ?" "Only what I've often heard our people say about its life." "And what is that ?" "Dui hundred besh a hatchin, dui hundred besh nasherin his chuckko, dui hundred besh 'pre he mullers, and then he nashers sar his ratt and he's kekoomi kushto." {30} "That is good, too.

There are a great many men who would like to live as long." "_Tacho_, true.

But an old coat can hold out better than a man.


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