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.”