Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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... deer , and a monkey . The deer roamed about the large compound , the monkey when we were not in the bungalow was chained to a pillar of the verandah and usually sat on the roof which the chain was long enough to allow him to reach . The ...
... deer , and a monkey . The deer roamed about the large compound , the monkey when we were not in the bungalow was chained to a pillar of the verandah and usually sat on the roof which the chain was long enough to allow him to reach . The ...
Page 99
Leonard Woolf. was also great friends with the 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 ...
Leonard Woolf. was also great friends with the 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 ...
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... 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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