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Page 67
... fever is fighting against him . ' - ' Aiyo ! what help for the cultivator when the flies have sucked the strength from the paddy ? He sowed in an unlucky hour , and not even the god can help him . Pity us , vederala . Will you not come ...
... fever is fighting against him . ' - ' Aiyo ! what help for the cultivator when the flies have sucked the strength from the paddy ? He sowed in an unlucky hour , and not even the god can help him . Pity us , vederala . Will you not come ...
Page 80
... fever and dysentery swept over the country . There was not a family in Beddagama which did not suffer , nor a house in which death did not take the old or the children . The doctor Mahatmaya , whom Punchirala despised , appeared in the ...
... fever and dysentery swept over the country . There was not a family in Beddagama which did not suffer , nor a house in which death did not take the old or the children . The doctor Mahatmaya , whom Punchirala despised , appeared in the ...
Page 90
... fever , and that his wife had gone away , and no one knew where she had gone . ' ' But people died of fever in Beddagama . ' ' Yes , aiya , of course many people die of fever here too . But they die among their relations , and friends ...
... fever , and that his wife had gone away , and no one knew where she had gone . ' ' But people died of fever in Beddagama . ' ' Yes , aiya , of course many people die of fever here too . But they die among their relations , and friends ...
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afraid Agent Hamadoru aiya Aiyo anger angry Appochchi Arachchi asked Babehami Babun Beddagama began Beragama brother Buddha buffalo called charm chena child cloth Colombo compound crop daughter deer devil E. M. Forster elephant evil eyes face father fear felt Fernando fever fool frightened girl give grain hang headman hear heard Hinnihami hunter judge jungle Kamburupitiya kapurala Karlinahami kill knew Korala Mahatmaya kunji kurakkan kurunies laughed leave Leonard Woolf leopard listen live looked magistrate months Mudalali Nanchohami never night path peon pilgrims prison Punchi Menika Punchirala rain Ratemahatmaya rice Rodiya round sanyasi silence Silindu Sinhalese slowly squatted stood strange talk Tamils tank tell temple thing thought tired told took track trees trouble understand veddas vederala village walked watched wife wild woman women words yakka Yakkini yakko