s juva Yag-bar a tatto-yek adre o yakk, te
kairedas i chingari ta mukker avri, te hotcher i puri juva's putsi. Sa
yoi wusserdas hotcherni putsi adre o hev, te pendas lis ta kessur adrom
keti avenna o mush sari juva kun kekker chingerd chichi. I chingari shan
staria, te dovo yag se o kam, te lis nanei jillo avri keti kenna, te lis
tevel hotcher anduro buti beshia pa sar jinova me keti chingerben. Tacho
si? Ne shomas adoi.

FLINT AND STEEL.
OR HOW THE SUN WAS CREATED.

"Tell me another story about the creation!"

I was not there at the time, but I heard a great deal about it from my
grandfather. All he did there was to turn the wheel. People tell me
that the world was made from the sun, but gypsies, who do everything all
contrary, say that the sun was made from the earth. A bad horse is that
which will not travel either way on a road. Once in the old time, as
[there may be] now, was a great old witch, who made enchantments, and
lived all alone in the sky in the night. One day she found a flint in a
field, and picked her up, and the stone told her that her name was Flint.
And after a bit she found a small piece of steel, and picked him up, and
asked his name, and he replied, "Steel" [iron]. She put the two in her
pocket, and said to Flint, "You must marry Master Steel." So they did,
but one day the two began to quarrel, and Steel gave his wife Flint a hot
one [a severe blow] in the eye, and made sparks fly, and set fire to the
old woman's pocket. So she threw the burning pocket up into the sky, and
told it to stay there until a man and his wife who had never quarreled
should come there. The sparks [from Flint's eye] are the stars, and the
fire is the sun, and it has not gone out as yet, and it will burn on many
a year, for all I know to the contrary. Is it true? I was not there.

O MANUSH KON JIVDAS ADRE O CHONE (SHONE).

"Pen mandy a waver gudlo apa o chone?"

Avail miri deari. Adre o puro chirus butidosta manushia jivvede
kushti-bakeno 'dre o chone, sar chichi ta kair awer ta rikker ap o yag so
kerela o dud. Awer, amen i foki jivdas buti wafodo muleno manush, kon
dusherdas te lias witchaben atut sar i waveri deari manushia, te yuv
kairedas lis sa's ta shikker lende sar adrom, te chivdas len avri o
chone. Te kenna o sig o i foki shan jillo, yuv pendas: "Kenna akovi
dinneli juckalis shan jillo, me te vel jiv mashni te kushto, sar
akonyus." Awer pash o bitto, o yag ankairdas ta hatch ala