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 189
... cattle and buffaloes on the roads and in villages as a warn- ing . The kind of thing which I did is shown by the following extract from my official diary for June 26th , 1909 : I have received several complaints from the G.A. ...
... cattle and buffaloes on the roads and in villages as a warn- ing . The kind of thing which I did is shown by the following extract from my official diary for June 26th , 1909 : I have received several complaints from the G.A. ...
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... cattle , the herds roaming on the lewayas , the cart bulls , the valuable tame buffaloes used in large numbers for agricultural purposes under the great irrigation works , like Tissa , and in rice cultivation under village tanks , the ...
... cattle , the herds roaming on the lewayas , the cart bulls , the valuable tame buffaloes used in large numbers for agricultural purposes under the great irrigation works , like Tissa , and in rice cultivation under village tanks , the ...
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