y shove; but they pens 'em the Seven
Whistlers. An' that sims the story tute pookered mandy of the Seven
Stars.

TRANSLATION.

Sir, the story of the Seven Whistlers, you know, is in the Scriptures--so
they told me.

An' the Seven Whistlers are seven spirits of ladies that go by the night,
through the air, over the heaven, like birds. And it tells (us) in the
Bible that the Seven Whistlers whistle wherever they fly across the air.
But a long time ago one went away and got lost, and now there are only
six; but they call them the Seven Whistlers. And that is like the story
you told me of the Seven Stars. {219}

GUDLO XVII. AN OLD STORY WELL KNOWN TO ALL GIPSIES.

A Rommany rakli yeckorus jalled to a ker a-dukkerin'. A'ter she jalled
avree, the rakli of the ker missered a plachta, and pookered the rye that
the Rommany chi had chored it. So the rye jalled aduro pauli the tem,
and latched the Rommany chals, and bitchered them to staruben. Now this
was adree the puro chairus when they used to nasher mushis for any bitti
covvo. And some of the Rommany chals were nashered, an' some pannied.
An' sar the gunnos, an' kavis, and covvas of the Rommanis were chivved
and pordered kettenus 'pre the bor adree the cangry-puv, an' kek mush
tooled 'em. An' trin dood (or munti) pauli, the rakli was kairin' the
baulors' habben at the kokero ker, when she latched the plachta they
nashered trin dood adovo divvus. So the rakli jalled with the plachta ta
laki rye, and penned, "Dick what I kaired on those chuvvenny, chori
Rommany chals that were nashered and pannied for adovo bitti covvo adoi!"

And when they jalled to dick at the Rommanis' covvas pauli the bor adree
the cangry-puv, the gunnos were pordo and chivved adree, chingered saw to
cut-engroes, and they latched 'em full o' ruppeny covvos--rooys an'
churls of sonnakai, an' oras, curros an' piimangris, that had longed o'
the Rommany chals that were nashered an' bitschered padel.

TRANSLATION.

A Gipsy girl once went to a house to tell fortunes. After she went away,
the girl of the house missed a pudding-bag (literally, _linen cloth_),
and told the master the Gipsy girl had stolen it. So the master went far
about the country, and found the Gipsies, and sent them to prison. Now
this was in the old time when they used to hang people for any little
thing. And some of the Gipsies were hung, and some transported
(literally, _watered_). And all the bags, and ke