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Page 74
There lives in it a young girl , unmarried , the daughter of Tuwan Abdid . I will take
you there on a moonless night , and you will make the charm there . And if the
next night the girl comes to me , I will give you 65 . " 1 Then my father thought , “ If
I ...
There lives in it a young girl , unmarried , the daughter of Tuwan Abdid . I will take
you there on a moonless night , and you will make the charm there . And if the
next night the girl comes to me , I will give you 65 . " 1 Then my father thought , “ If
I ...
Page 138
Was not the woman herself in travail that very night ? Do not she - devils give
birth to devils ? Do village women suckle deer ? Surely it is a devil , born of a
devil . Look at the evil that fell upon the village when it came . The crops withered
, and ...
Was not the woman herself in travail that very night ? Do not she - devils give
birth to devils ? Do village women suckle deer ? Surely it is a devil , born of a
devil . Look at the evil that fell upon the village when it came . The crops withered
, and ...
Page 184
They were stolen last night from the Arachchi ' s house . The Mudalali saw you
leaving the house in the night . Curse you , I shall have to take you into
Kamburupitiya now to the court and the magistrate Hamadoru . And what about
this fellow ?
They were stolen last night from the Arachchi ' s house . The Mudalali saw you
leaving the house in the night . Curse you , I shall have to take you into
Kamburupitiya now to the court and the magistrate Hamadoru . And what about
this fellow ?
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User Review - Steve38 - LibraryThingDear me but this is a depressing book. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong for the main characters. Written from the point of view of impoverished, uneducated jungle dwellers in Sri Lanka by ... Read full review
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aiya Aiyo Arachchi asked Babehami Babun became began bring brother brought called carrying charm chena child clear cloth comes compound court crop daughter dead deer devil died evil eyes face father fear felt Fernando followed fool girl give given Hamadoru hand hang head headman hear heard Hinnihami hunter interpreter judge jungle Kamburupitiya Karlinahami kill knew Korala laughed leave lies listen live looked Mahatmaya mind months morning mother Mudalali never night once passed path perhaps prison Punchi Menika Punchirala rain rice road round seemed seen side silence Silindu slowly speak squatted stand stood strange talk tell temple thing thought told took track trees trouble true turned understand vederala village voice waited walked watched wife wild wind woman women
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Village in the Jungle |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0701202564, 9780701202569 |
| Length | 307 pages |
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