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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER II
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If a man gets a hole in him he dies, but his _chukko_ (coat) can be _toofered_ and _sivved apre_ (mended and sewed up) for ever.

So, unless a man could get a new life every year, as they say the _hepputs_, the little lizards do, he needn't hope to live like an oak." "Do the lizards get a new life every year ?" "_Avali_.

A _hepput_ only lives one year, and then he begins life over again." "Do snails live as long as lizards ?" "Not when I find 'em rya--if I am hungry.

Snails are good eating.

{32} You can find plenty on the hedges.


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