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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... tennis club . Our society was exclusively white . The only Tamils admitted were the podyans , the small boys who picked up the tennis balls and handed them to us when we were serving , and the great Sinna- tamby . I used to watch ...
... tennis club . Our society was exclusively white . The only Tamils admitted were the podyans , the small boys who picked up the tennis balls and handed them to us when we were serving , and the great Sinna- tamby . I used to watch ...
Page 69
... tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so , and that fear alone prevented him . Eventually he decided to come with me and play tennis , and so one evening , fitted out with tennis shoes and a ...
... tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so , and that fear alone prevented him . Eventually he decided to come with me and play tennis , and so one evening , fitted out with tennis shoes and a ...
Page 135
... tennis . Night after night we all went up to the head of the Lake to the tennis courts , a grander and more social ritual than that of Jaffna with a continual flutter of females including a fluctuating stream of visitors , planters ...
... tennis . Night after night we all went up to the head of the Lake to the tennis courts , a grander and more social ritual than that of Jaffna with a continual flutter of females including a fluctuating stream of visitors , planters ...
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