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Page 75
Some distance from Kangesanturai a policeman was waiting on the road to stop
us and take us to the Chief Headman ' s , the Maniagar ' s house . There we
found a young man and a crowd of relations of the small boy , together with
headmen ...
Some distance from Kangesanturai a policeman was waiting on the road to stop
us and take us to the Chief Headman ' s , the Maniagar ' s house . There we
found a young man and a crowd of relations of the small boy , together with
headmen ...
Page 111
Half - way to Kandy the train was drawing into a station , I suppose it was
Ambepussa , and before it had stopped he impetuously opened the carriage door
in order to get out and buy himself an orange or plantain . His foot slipped and he
fell ...
Half - way to Kandy the train was drawing into a station , I suppose it was
Ambepussa , and before it had stopped he impetuously opened the carriage door
in order to get out and buy himself an orange or plantain . His foot slipped and he
fell ...
Page 240
One day when I was passing near the village , a large deputation of the women
stopped and asked me to help them . The stones which they had fished up had
been seized by the Forest Department on the ground that they were “ forest ...
One day when I was passing near the village , a large deputation of the women
stopped and asked me to help them . The stones which they had fished up had
been seized by the Forest Department on the ground that they were “ forest ...
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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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