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Sanders, the D.J., was a small, fat whisky-drinking man of 49 whom I never got to
know well, because he was soon transferred to another station. Dutton, the P.M.,
was a strange character; a strange fate, partly due to me, befell him, but I will ...
Sanders, the D.J., was a small, fat whisky-drinking man of 49 whom I never got to
know well, because he was soon transferred to another station. Dutton, the P.M.,
was a strange character; a strange fate, partly due to me, befell him, but I will ...
Page 173
... about a month after I arrived in Hambantota: 2nd Oct., 1908 Hambantota
Ceylon I have often been on the point of writing in the last months and never
quite reached it, perhaps because I knew that it would never be the time until you
did.
... about a month after I arrived in Hambantota: 2nd Oct., 1908 Hambantota
Ceylon I have often been on the point of writing in the last months and never
quite reached it, perhaps because I knew that it would never be the time until you
did.
Page 210
Coming face to face with a buffalo, a bear, or a leopard one felt pretty sure of
what he would do, and in 999 cases out of a 1,000 one was right; I never felt that I
had any idea of what an elephant would do: he might pay no attention to you at
all ...
Coming face to face with a buffalo, a bear, or a leopard one felt pretty sure of
what he would do, and in 999 cases out of a 1,000 one was right; I never felt that I
had any idea of what an elephant would do: he might pay no attention to you at
all ...
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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 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, Incorporated, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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