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Page 33
... mother keep her children ? All know that you have borne six , and that all are dead . What did you ever give them ... mother only of the dead , a mother of six dead children . Look at my breasts , shrivelled and milkless . I say to the ...
... mother keep her children ? All know that you have borne six , and that all are dead . What did you ever give them ... mother only of the dead , a mother of six dead children . Look at my breasts , shrivelled and milkless . I say to the ...
Page 113
... mother . This fever is a hard thing to cure . Did I not tell you that even in the hospital there is no medicine against it ? And it is hard for a man to find the lucky hour . and the man starts from the house : the man does not hear the ...
... mother . This fever is a hard thing to cure . Did I not tell you that even in the hospital there is no medicine against it ? And it is hard for a man to find the lucky hour . and the man starts from the house : the man does not hear the ...
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... Mother , mother , come out ! Listen to the woman I brought to the house ; she has became a vederala . The pilgrimage has made her a sanyasi , I think , knowing the god's mind , skilled in magic . " " Keep your words for the women of the ...
... Mother , mother , come out ! Listen to the woman I brought to the house ; she has became a vederala . The pilgrimage has made her a sanyasi , I think , knowing the god's mind , skilled in magic . " " Keep your words for the women of the ...
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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