Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 282William Blackwood, 1957 - England |
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Page 270
... yards I trudged on through the forest , my footsteps a series of muffled crunches on the soft sandy track . Then I suddenly startled the first wild creature . so I thought ; for from my right came abruptly the sharp baying alarm of a ...
... yards I trudged on through the forest , my footsteps a series of muffled crunches on the soft sandy track . Then I suddenly startled the first wild creature . so I thought ; for from my right came abruptly the sharp baying alarm of a ...
Page 399
... yards beyond the pool , Jumbo , still alive , had broken the leopard's grip and shaken free . For a few glorious seconds , for he was a fighting man , he probably gave very nearly as much as he got . Here the sand was wildly churned up ...
... yards beyond the pool , Jumbo , still alive , had broken the leopard's grip and shaken free . For a few glorious seconds , for he was a fighting man , he probably gave very nearly as much as he got . Here the sand was wildly churned up ...
Page 453
... yards that sinister night I saw him last , age sixteen ! We had finished two years of military school and were , I think , the laziest of the regiment . We worked and studied and schemed , but only to the end of dodging what we thought ...
... yards that sinister night I saw him last , age sixteen ! We had finished two years of military school and were , I think , the laziest of the regiment . We worked and studied and schemed , but only to the end of dodging what we thought ...
Contents
TENERIFE INVICTA | 48 |
THE AUGER BY PETER YORSTON | 225 |
THE BEAUTIFUL REVOLUTION BY UBYSSEY | 453 |
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