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The English Gipsies and Their Language

CHAPTER V
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I think I will make my living so.

I was so treated by the soldiers.

They fell on us, wounded many, three they killed, and I was taken to prison to work for life.

Heaven preserve you in all things from that into which I have fallen, and I remain thy husband unto death.
* * * * * It is the same sad story in all, wretchedness, poverty, losses, and hunger.

In the English letter there was a _chingari_--a shindy; in the German they have a _tshinger_, which is nearly the same word, and means the same.


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