Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 188
... cattle . The difficulty of doing this was tremendous . There were no fences or hedges and all cattle were allowed habitually to wander about everywhere . In open places near towns or villages , like the lewayas , you would always see ...
... cattle . The difficulty of doing this was tremendous . There were no fences or hedges and all cattle were allowed habitually to wander about everywhere . In open places near towns or villages , like the lewayas , you would always see ...
Page 191
... cattle and buffaloes of the villagers whom one knows and likes . The whole village seemed to have turned out and the men were standing on the road round the bodies of the animals ; there was a hostile murmur from the small crowd . I ...
... cattle and buffaloes of the villagers whom one knows and likes . The whole village seemed to have turned out and the men were standing on the road round the bodies of the animals ; there was a hostile murmur from the small crowd . I ...
Page 199
... cattle in the populated parts of West Giruwa Pattu . In the jungle - surrounded arable areas of Magampattu , like Tissamaharama , where tame buffaloes were being continually infected by dis- eased wild buffaloes , I did something by ...
... cattle in the populated parts of West Giruwa Pattu . In the jungle - surrounded arable areas of Magampattu , like Tissamaharama , where tame buffaloes were being continually infected by dis- eased wild buffaloes , I did something by ...
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