Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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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 the compound ...
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 the compound ...
Page 195
Walking round the hole I came upon the body of a wild pig , obviously partly
eaten by a leopard . The Arachchi agreed with me that the leopard would
probably return to it at dusk and he asked me to shoot it as leopards were
causing ...
Walking round the hole I came upon the body of a wild pig , obviously partly
eaten by a leopard . The Arachchi agreed with me that the leopard would
probably return to it at dusk and he asked me to shoot it as leopards were
causing ...
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wounded leopard was growling so that we knew it was still alive . Engelbrecht
then cut down a sapling and said that he would climb on to the boulder and poke
the leopard out with the sapling so that I could get a shot at it . I protested that it ...
wounded leopard was growling so that we knew it was still alive . Engelbrecht
then cut down a sapling and said that he would climb on to the boulder and poke
the leopard out with the sapling so that I could get a shot at it . I protested that it ...
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