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Page 49
The consequence was that if I bicycled out of Jaffna to the opposite coast or to
some far off village, as I so often did, even after a year or two when I knew the
whole country well, it was extremely difficult to know when and where one had
left the ...
The consequence was that if I bicycled out of Jaffna to the opposite coast or to
some far off village, as I so often did, even after a year or two when I knew the
whole country well, it was extremely difficult to know when and where one had
left the ...
Page 66
When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game
and, in cutting up the animals killed by me, saw the disgusting, semi-digested
contents of their upper intestines, I was always reminded of the contents of ...
When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game
and, in cutting up the animals killed by me, saw the disgusting, semi-digested
contents of their upper intestines, I was always reminded of the contents of ...
Page 70
The first time must have been some four years later. I was now an extremely
competent civil servant ; my facade was in full working order. As a result I was
Assistant Government Agent, Hambantota, having been given the post over the
heads ...
The first time must have been some four years later. I was now an extremely
competent civil servant ; my facade was in full working order. As a result I was
Assistant Government Agent, Hambantota, having been given the post over the
heads ...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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