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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER III
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Millions of them.

Now in those days there were no Rommanichals, and consequently no rat-catchers." "'Taint so now-a-days," replied the Gipsy, gloomily.

"The business is quite spiled, and not to get a livin' by." "Avo.

And by the time the people had almost gone crazy, one day there came a man--a Gipsy--the first Gipsy who had ever been seen in _dovo tem_ (or that country).

And he agreed for a thousand crowns to clear all the rats away.


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