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... growing of a quick crop , usually only for one year , nourished by the ash from burning off the trees and scrub girdled earlier in the dry season . Quick- growing weeds soon invade the chena , which is then left to the encroaching ...
... growing of a quick crop , usually only for one year , nourished by the ash from burning off the trees and scrub girdled earlier in the dry season . Quick- growing weeds soon invade the chena , which is then left to the encroaching ...
Page 13
... growing steadier and stronger every day . A little rain falls , the last be- fore the long drought sets in . The hot , dry wind sweeps over the trees . The grass and the shrubs die down ; the leaves on the small trees shrivel up , and grow ...
... growing steadier and stronger every day . A little rain falls , the last be- fore the long drought sets in . The hot , dry wind sweeps over the trees . The grass and the shrubs die down ; the leaves on the small trees shrivel up , and grow ...
Page 31
... grow- ing up . When they were ten or eleven years old , it often burst out against her in angry taunts at the tank . " O Karlinahami ! " Nanchohami , the head - man's wife , would say , " you are growing an old woman and , alas ...
... grow- ing up . When they were ten or eleven years old , it often burst out against her in angry taunts at the tank . " O Karlinahami ! " Nanchohami , the head - man's wife , would say , " you are growing an old woman and , alas ...
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afraid Agent Hamadoru aiya Aiyo anger angry Appochchi Arachchi asked Babehami Babun Beddagama began Beragama brother Buddha called charm chena crop child cloth Colombo compound dagobas daughter deer devil elephant evil eyes father fear felt Fernando fever fool girl give grain hami hand hang headman hear heard Hinni Hinnihami hunter judge jungle Kamburupitiya kapurala Karlinahami kill knew Korala Mahatmaya kunji kurakkan kurunies laughed leave Leonard Woolf listened live looked magistrate months morning Mudalali Nanchohami never night path peon pilgrims prison Punchi Menika Punchirala rain Ratemahatmaya rice Rodiya round sanyasi side silence Silindu Sinhalese slowly squatted stood strange talk Tamils tank tell temple thing thought tired told took track trees trouble understand veddas vederala village walked watched wife wild woman women words yakka Yakkini yakko