THOMAS ROSSAR-MESCRO

PREY Juniken bis diuto divvus, drey the besh yeck mille ochto shel

shovardesh ta trin, mande jaw’d to dick Thomas Rossar-mescro, a puro

Romano, of whom mande had shoon’d bute. He was jibbing drey a tan naveno

Rye Groby’s Court, kek dur from the Coromengreskoe Tan ta

Bokkar-engreskey Wesh. When mande dick’d leste he was beshing prey the

poov by his wuddur, chiving misto the poggado tuleskey part of a skammin.

His ker was posh ker, posh wardo, and stood drey a corner of the tan; kek

dur from lesti were dui or trin wafor ker-wardoes. There was a wafudo

canipen of baulor, though mande dick’d kekkeney. I penn’d “Sarshin?” in

Romany jib, and we had some rokrapen kettaney. He was a boro mush, as

mande could dick, though he was beshing. But though boro he was kek

tulo, ta lescré wastes were tarney sar yek rawnie’s. Lollo leste mui sar

yeck weneskoe paub, ta lescro bal rather lollo than parno. Prey his

shero was a beti stadj, and he was kek wafudo riddo. On my putching

leste kisi boro he was, ta kisi puro, he penn’d that he was sho piré sore

but an inch boro, ta enyovardesh ta dui besh puro. He didn’t jin to

rokkra bute in Romano, but jinn’d almost sore so mande rokkar’d te leste.

Moro rokkrapen was mostly in gorgiko jib. Yeck covar yecklo drey lescro

drom of rokkring mande pennsch’d kosko to rig in zi. In tan of penning

Romany, sar wafor Romany chals, penn’d o Roumany, a lav which sig, sig

rigg’d to my zi _Roumain_, the tatcho, puro nav of the Vallackiskie jib

and foky. He seem’d a biti aladge of being of Romany rat. He penn’d

that he was beano drey the Givengreskey Tem, that he was kek tatcho

Romano, but yeckly posh ta posh: lescro dado was Romano, but lescri daya

a gorgie of the Lilengreskoe Gav; he had never camm’d bute to jib

Romaneskoenaes, and when tarno had been a givengreskoe raklo. When he

was boro he jall’d adrey the Lilengrotemskey militia, and was desh ta

stor besh a militia curomengro. He had jall’d bute about Engli-tem and

the juvalo-mengreskey, Tem, drey the cheeros of the puri chingaripen, and

had been adrey Monseer-tem, having volunteered to jal odoy to cour agen

the parley-woo gueros. He had dick’d Bordeaux and the boro gav Paris.

After the chingaripen, he had lell’d oprey skamminengring, and had jall’d

about the tem, but had been knau for buter than trianda beshor jibbing in

Lundra. He had been romado, but his romadi had been mullee bute, bute

cheeros; she had dinn’d leste yeck chavo, so was knau a heftwardesh

beshengro, dicking bute puroder than yo cocoro, ta kanau lying naflo of a

tatti naflipen drey yeck of the wardes. He penn’d that at yeck cheeros

he could kair dosta luvvu by skammin-engring, but kanau from his bori

puripen could scarcely kair yeck tringurushee a divvus. “Ladjipen si,” I

penn’d, “that a mush so puro as tute should have to booty.” “Kosko zi!

kosko zi!” he penn’d; “Paracrow Dibble that mande is dosta ruslo to

booty, and that mande has koskey camomescres; I shan’t be tugnis to jib

to be a shel beshengro, though tatchipen si if mande was a rye mande

would kair kek booty.” His chaveskoe chavo, a trianda ta pansch

beshengro, well’d kanau ta rokkar’d mansar. He was a misto dicking ta

rather misto riddo mush, sar chimouni jinneymengreskey drey lescro mui.

He penn’d that his dadeskoe dad was a fino puro mush, savo had dick’d

bute, and that dosta, dosta foky well’d odoy to shoon lescré rokkrapenes

of the puro cheeros, of the Franciskie ta Amencanskie chingaripenes, and

of what yo had dick’d drey wafu tems. That tatchipen to pen there was a

cheeros when his drom was dur from kosko, for that he camm’d to cour,

sollohaul ta kair himself motto, but that kanau he was a wafu mush, that

he had muk’d sore curopen and wafudo rokkrapen, and, to corauni sore, was

yeck tee-totaller, yo cocoro having kair’d leste sollohaul that he would

pi kekomi neither tatti panie nor levinor: that he jall’d sore the

curques either to congri or Tabernacle, and that tho’ he kek jinn’d to

del oprey he camm’d to shoon the Miduveleskoe lil dell’d oprey to leste;

that the panishkie ryor held leste drey boro camopen, and that the

congriskoe rashi, and oprey sore Dr. P. of the Tabernacle had a boro

opinionos of leste, ta penn’d that he would hal the Miduveleskoe habben

sar moro Araunyo Jesus drey the kosko tem opral. Mande putch’d whether

the Romany Chals well’d often to dick leste? He penn’d that they well’d

knau and then to pen Koshto divvus and Sarshin? but dov’ odoy was sore;

that neither his dadeskoe dad nor yo cocoro camm’d to dick lende, because

they were wafodu foky, perdo of wafodupen and bango camopen, ta oprey

sore bute envyous; that drey the wen they jall’d sore cattaney to the

ryor, and rokkar’d wafodu of the puno mush, and pukker’d the ryor to let

lester a coppur which the ryor had lent leste, to kair tatto his choveno

puro truppo drey the cheeros of the trashlo shillipen; that tatchipen si

their wafodupen kaired the puro mush kek dosh, for the ryor pukker’d

lende to jal their drom and be aladge of their cocoré, but that it was

kek misto to pensch that yeck was of the same rat as such foky. After

some cheeros I dinn’d the puro mush a tawno cuttor of rupe, shook leste

by ye wast, penn’d that it would be mistos amande to dick leste a

shel-beshengro, and jaw’d away keri.

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