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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER V
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There were two or three pounds to pay in the morning for the horses and asses that were in the pound.
Your brother has got a capital horse that can go along the road nicely.
L---, too, has a large fine horse.

He went to the fair in -- - with a broken-winded horse and a glandered.

You could have killed that horse and nobody said a word to you.

I gave it some lard to stop his breathing, and I sold it for nine pound to a gentleman whom you know well.
Lotty was at the fair telling fortunes to the ladies.

She got some excellent food, and her apron was quite full, when she saw her husband and cried out: "Come here! I've got some nice victuals!" She said to a girl: "Put you money in your hand and I'll tell you your fortune." And she took half a sovereign from the lady.


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