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Page 63
A bloody unwashed Board School bugger , who doesn ' t know one end of a
woman from the other ” , was the description of him given to me when I first came
to Jaffna by Bowes or Dowbiggin , and it must be admitted that there was some
truth ...
A bloody unwashed Board School bugger , who doesn ' t know one end of a
woman from the other ” , was the description of him given to me when I first came
to Jaffna by Bowes or Dowbiggin , and it must be admitted that there was some
truth ...
Page 118
I had given Twilight to Mrs . Price and they were devotedly inseparable until he
was killed and eaten by a leopard in the Mannar jungle before their eyes . He
was a white whippet - like dog of dubious parentage on the father ' s side , his
mother ...
I had given Twilight to Mrs . Price and they were devotedly inseparable until he
was killed and eaten by a leopard in the Mannar jungle before their eyes . He
was a white whippet - like dog of dubious parentage on the father ' s side , his
mother ...
Page 186
I found that there was an excess of 36 lb . over the weight given at the lewaya . I
tried another cart of 18 bags and found an excess of 15 lb . I then found that in
practically every case in which I had not been present , the weight of a cartload ...
I found that there was an excess of 36 lb . over the weight given at the lewaya . I
tried another cart of 18 bags and found an excess of 15 lb . I then found that in
practically every case in which I had not been present , the weight of a cartload ...
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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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