ROMANY TACHIPEN.

     
      Taken down accurately from an old gypsy. Common dialect, or “half-and-half” language.
      “Rya, tute kams mandy to 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.”