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 195
... leopard . The Arachchi agreed with me that the leopard would probably return to it at dusk and he asked me to shoot it as leopards were causing destruction among the village cattle who had so far escaped the disease . We piled up some ...
... leopard . The Arachchi agreed with me that the leopard would probably return to it at dusk and he asked me to shoot it as leopards were causing destruction among the village cattle who had so far escaped the disease . We piled up some ...
Page 196
... leopard standing upright a few yards from me , staring straight into my eyes . I looked straight into his eyes ... leopard . At the same moment there was a sudden violent scuttle of the terrified mongoose out of the pig . The next moment ...
... leopard standing upright a few yards from me , staring straight into my eyes . I looked straight into his eyes ... leopard . At the same moment there was a sudden violent scuttle of the terrified mongoose out of the pig . The next moment ...
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... leopard . We were walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a leopard crossed our path about 25 yards ahead . Hodson fired and hit the beast for we found and followed a trail of blood right up ...
... leopard . We were walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a leopard crossed our path about 25 yards ahead . Hodson fired and hit the beast for we found and followed a trail of blood right up ...
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