So because the pash-grai wouldn't rikker him, she was sovahalled againsus never to be a dye or lel tiknos.

So she never lelled kek, nor any cross either.
"Then he putchered the myla to rikker him, and she penned: 'Avali!' so he pet a cross apre laki's dumo.

And to the divvus the myla has a trin bongo drum and latchers tiknos, but the pash-grai has kek.

So the mylas 'longs of the Rommanis." (TRANSLATION.)--"Yes--many a time I've had to go two or three miles of a Great Day (Christmas), early in the morning, to get ash-wood for the fire.

That was when I was a small boy, for my father always would do it.
"And we do it because people say our Saviour, the small God, was born on the Great Day, in the field, out in the country, like we Rommanis, and he was brought up by an ash-fire." Here a sudden sensation of doubt or astonishment at my ignorance seemed to occur to my informant, for he said,-- "Why, you can see that in the Scriptures!" To which I answered, "But the Gipsies have Scripture stories different from those of the Gorgios, and different ideas about religion.