The policeman says we mustn’t stop here.
No phrase is heard more frequently among Gipsies, who are continually in trouble with the police as to their right to stop and pitch their tents on commons.
I can hatch apré for pange (panj) divvuses.
I can stop here for five days.
A common phrase indicating content, and equivalent to, “I would like to sit here for a week.”
The graias have taddered at the kas-stoggus—we must jāl an dūrer—the gorgio’s dicked us!
The horses have been pulling at the hay-stack—we must hurry away—the man has seen us!
When Gipsies have remained over night on a farm, it sometimes happens that their horses and asses—inadvertently of course—find their way to the haystacks or into a good field. Humanum est errare!
Yeck mush can lel a grai ta panni, but twenty cant kair him pi.
One man can take a horse to water, but twenty can’t make him drink.