A GIPSY BALLAD.

Vhen der Herr Breitmann vas a yungling, he vas go bummin aroundt

goot deal in de worldt, vestigatin human natur, roulant de vergne

en vergne, ash de Fraentsch boet says: "goin from town to town;"

seein beobles in gemixed sociedy, und learnin dose languages vitch

ornamendt a drue moskopolite, or von whose kopf ish bemosst mit

experience. Mong oder tongues, ash it would appeared, he shpoke

fluendly, Red Welsh, Black Dootch, Kauder-Waelsch, Gaunersprache,

und Shipsy; und dis latter languashe he pring so wide dat he write

a pook of pallads in it,-von of vitch pallads I hafe intuce him mit

moosh droples to telifer ofer to de worldt. De inclined reader

vill, mit crate heavy-hood blace pefore himself de fexation und

lapor I hafe hat in der Breitmann his absents, to ged dese Shipsy

verses broperly gorrected; as de only shentleman in town who vas

culpable of so doin, ish peen gonfined in de town-brison, pout some

droples he hat for shdealin some hens; und pefore I couldt consoolt

mit him, he vas rooned afay. Denn I fond an oldt vomans Shipsy,

who vas do nodings boot peg, und so wider mit pout five or four

oders more. Derfore, de errordoms moost pe excused py de enlightened

pooplic, who are fomiliar mit dis peautiful languashe, vitch is now so

shenerally fashionabel in laterary und shpordin circles.

The Breitmann Ballads · 第 13 / 133 题