Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 284W. Blackwood, 1958 - England |
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Page 373
A crow pheasant perched unsuspiciously three feet away from us , peering in all directions with his ruby - red eyes . A vulture flapped noisily into a tree , spread wide his wings to the evening breeze and posed as a German eagle .
A crow pheasant perched unsuspiciously three feet away from us , peering in all directions with his ruby - red eyes . A vulture flapped noisily into a tree , spread wide his wings to the evening breeze and posed as a German eagle .
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The tiger had been revolting scraps of flesh they tore within a few feet of us . Frustrated from the buffalo's back , then scam- and furious at my own stupidity we pered wildly away . They had not crawled out of our hole , on to the ...
The tiger had been revolting scraps of flesh they tore within a few feet of us . Frustrated from the buffalo's back , then scam- and furious at my own stupidity we pered wildly away . They had not crawled out of our hole , on to the ...
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... and our sleep was fitful , with the howling wind whipping at the little tent , threatening to tear it from the ground . Two o'clock in the morning is no time to be out on a bleak mountainside at seventeen thousand feet .
... and our sleep was fitful , with the howling wind whipping at the little tent , threatening to tear it from the ground . Two o'clock in the morning is no time to be out on a bleak mountainside at seventeen thousand feet .
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Contents
PAGE | 45 |
THE ETHICS OF ESPRIT DE CORPS BY R L WILD | 192 |
A HIGHLAND MEMORY BY WALTER MACKAY | 337 |
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