WHEN der Herr Breitmann vas a yungling, he
vas go, bummin aroundt, goot deal in de
Worlt, vestigatin human natur, roulant de
vergne en vergne, ash de Fraentsch boet says : " goin
from town to town," — seein beobles in gemixed so-
ciedy, und leamin dose languages vitch omamendt a
drue moskopolite, or yon whose het ish bemost mit ex-
perience. Mong Oder tongues ash it would appeared,
he shpoke fluendly Red Welsh, Black Dootcb, Kau-
der-Waelsch Gaunersprache und Shipsy; und dis
latter languashe he pring so wide dat he write a pook
of pallads in it — von of vitch paUads I have intuce
him, mit moush droples, to telifer ofer to de worldt.
De inclined reader, viU, mit crate heavy-hood, blace
pefore himself de fexation und lapor I hafe hat in
der Breitmann his absents to get dese Shipsy verses
broperly gorrected ; as de only shentleman in town
who vas culpable of so doin, ish peen gonflned in de
town-brison, pout some drobles he hat for shdealin
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some hens ; und pefore I couldt consoolt mit him, he
vas rooned afay. Den I fond an oldt vomans Shipsy
■who vas do nodins boot peg, und so wider mit
pout five or four oders more. Derfore der erordoms
moast pe excused py de enlightened pooplic who are
fomUiar mit dis peautiful languashe, vitch is now
so shenerally fashionabel in literary und shpordin
circles.
I Qili Eomaneskro.
ScHUNAVA, ke baschko dela godla
Schunava Paschomaskro.
Te del miro Dewel tumen
Dschavena bachtaUo.
Schunava apr^ to ruka

Chiriklo ke gillela :
Kamov^a but dives,

Eh'me pale kamaveva.
A po je wa'wer divesseste
Schunava pro gilaviben,

Makana me avava,

Pro marzos, pro kuriben.
Z53 EAN8 BBMITMANN'S BALLADS.
