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 99
... deer ; he used to stalk the deer and suddenly jump on his back with his foreleg over the shoulder in true leopard manner , and the deer would then shake him off and butt him round and round the compound , both of them obviously enjoying ...
... deer ; he used to stalk the deer and suddenly jump on his back with his foreleg over the shoulder in true leopard manner , and the deer would then shake him off and butt him round and round the compound , both of them obviously enjoying ...
Page 200
... deer , spotted deer , and pig . Both in Magam- pattu and in the two western pattus snipe were plentiful in the wet season , and on the lewayas and irrigation tanks there was good teal shooting . Before I came to the Dis- trict I had ...
... deer , spotted deer , and pig . Both in Magam- pattu and in the two western pattus snipe were plentiful in the wet season , and on the lewayas and irrigation tanks there was good teal shooting . Before I came to the Dis- trict I had ...
Page 217
... deer , had shot deer in the river bed which was the boundary of the Game Sanctuary . I issued summonses upon them and had them brought up before me in Hambantota before they could leave the District . After enquiry it was clear that 217 ...
... deer , had shot deer in the river bed which was the boundary of the Game Sanctuary . I issued summonses upon them and had them brought up before me in Hambantota before they could leave the District . After enquiry it was clear that 217 ...
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