o pukker tute the tachopen--awo? Se's a boro or a
kusi covva, mandy'll rakker tacho, s'up mi-duvel, apre mi meriben, bengis
adre man'nys see if mandy pens a bitto huckaben! An' sa se adduvvel?
Did mandy ever chore a kani adre mi jiv? and what do the Romany chals
kair o' the poris, 'cause kekker ever dikked chichi pash of a Romany tan?
Kek rya,--mandy _never_ chored a kani an' adre sixty beshes kenna 'at
mandy's been apre the drumyors, an' sar dovo chirus mandy never dikked or
shuned or jinned of a Romany chal's chorin yeck. What's adduvel tute
pens?--that Petulengro kaliko divvus penned tute yuv rikkered a
yagengeree to muller kanis! Avail rya--tacho se aja--the mush penned
adre his kokero see _weshni_ kanis. But kek _kairescro_ kanis. Romanis
kekker chores lendy."

GYPSY TRUTH.

"Master, you want me to tell you all the truth,--yes? If it's a big or a
little thing, I'll tell the truth, so help me God, upon my life! The
devil be in my soul if I tell the least lie! And what is it? Did I ever
in all my life steal a chicken? and what do the gypsies do with the
feathers, because nobody ever saw any near a gypsy tent? Never, sir,--I
_never_ stole a chicken; and in all the sixty years that I've been on the
roads, in all that time I never saw or heard or knew of a gypsy's
stealing one. What's that you say?--that Petulengro told you yesterday
that he carried a gun to kill _chickens_! Ah yes, sir,--that is true,
too. The man meant in his heart wood chickens [that is, pheasants]. But
not _domestic_ chickens. Gypsies never steal _them_." {324}

CHOVIHANIPEN.

"Miri diri bibi, me kamava butidiro tevel chovihani. Kamava ta dukker
geeris te ta jin kunjerni cola. Tu sosti sikker mengi sarakovi."

"Oh miri kamli! vonka tu vissa te vel chovihani, te i Gorgie jinena lis,
tu lesa buti tugnus. Sar i chavi tevel shellavri, te kair a gudli te
wusser baria kanna dikena tute, te shyan i bori foki merena tute. Awer
kushti se ta jin garini covva, kushti se vonka chori churkni juva te sar
i sweti chungen' apre, jinela sa ta kair lende wafodopen ta pessur sar
lenghis dush. Te man tevel sikker tute chomany chovihaneskes. Shun!
Vonka tu kamesa pen o dukkerin, lesa tu sar tiro man {325} ta latcher
ajafera a manush te manushi lis se. De lende o yack, chiv lis drovan opa
lakis yakka tevel se rakli. Vonka se pash trasherdo yoi tevel pen buti
talla jinaben. Kanna tu sos kedo lis sorkon cherus tu astis risser buti