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Page 201
The excitement is tremendous , whether you are stalking a deer in the jungle ,
shooting snipe in a paddy field , or waiting in the evening on a tank for the sound
of the whistling of the teal as they fly in to roost on the dead trees and give you
the ...
The excitement is tremendous , whether you are stalking a deer in the jungle ,
shooting snipe in a paddy field , or waiting in the evening on a tank for the sound
of the whistling of the teal as they fly in to roost on the dead trees and give you
the ...
Page 205
Just after dawn next morning , we went out with Engelbrecht in order to give
Hodson a chance to shoot a deer or possibly a bear or leopard . We were
walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a
leopard ...
Just after dawn next morning , we went out with Engelbrecht in order to give
Hodson a chance to shoot a deer or possibly a bear or leopard . We were
walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a
leopard ...
Page 229
The child was blind , and they had come to Kataragama to ask the God to give
him sight . The God had not heard their prayers and they thought that perhaps if
they made the child cry long and loud enough , the God would hear him . They
had ...
The child was blind , and they had come to Kataragama to ask the God to give
him sight . The God had not heard their prayers and they thought that perhaps if
they made the child cry long and loud enough , the God would hear him . They
had ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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