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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
...
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
...
Page 173
... about a month after I arrived in Hambantota : n 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 : n 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 ...
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 ...
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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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