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Page 40
He turned upon me, red in the face, and violently told me that I was talking
nonsense. Emboldened by Charles, the dead cat, and the dead snake, I told him
what cards had been played by whom and turned up the trick which proved that
he ...
He turned upon me, red in the face, and violently told me that I was talking
nonsense. Emboldened by Charles, the dead cat, and the dead snake, I told him
what cards had been played by whom and turned up the trick which proved that
he ...
Page 95
... I shall never forget. I had been in the koddu all night and the last Arabs and the
last oysters were leaving in the early hours of the morning. I was just going to
leave myself when an Arab came in from the beach and told me that one of his
men ...
... I shall never forget. I had been in the koddu all night and the last Arabs and the
last oysters were leaving in the early hours of the morning. I was just going to
leave myself when an Arab came in from the beach and told me that one of his
men ...
Page 240
The output was about 300 fathoms a year and I was told that as many as 2,400
women work off and on — a number which seemed to me quite incredible. When
I went to see the diving, the women told me that they never got malaria. One day
...
The output was about 300 fathoms a year and I was told that as many as 2,400
women work off and on — a number which seemed to me quite incredible. When
I went to see the diving, the women told me that they never got malaria. One day
...
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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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