Thirty Years of ShikarW. Blackwood & Sons, 1895 - 373 páginas |
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... less than nothing . For those were the glorious days when credit abounded and the shroff was ever ready with the loan required by embryo rulers of the land . Fine old times , when the young civilian could , and did , live at the rate of ...
... less than nothing . For those were the glorious days when credit abounded and the shroff was ever ready with the loan required by embryo rulers of the land . Fine old times , when the young civilian could , and did , live at the rate of ...
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... less innocent subjects of investiga- tion , such as the opium traffic , representative gov- ernment , and so forth . A very short apprentice- ship would give them something like an intelligible idea of what pig - sticking is , or is not ...
... less innocent subjects of investiga- tion , such as the opium traffic , representative gov- ernment , and so forth . A very short apprentice- ship would give them something like an intelligible idea of what pig - sticking is , or is not ...
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... less connected with the mighty boar than with the sow , which , though it cannot rip up a horse's flanks or belly as can the boar , can gallop a little , and , instead of ripping , can bite . This chase of the female swine I saw what ...
... less connected with the mighty boar than with the sow , which , though it cannot rip up a horse's flanks or belly as can the boar , can gallop a little , and , instead of ripping , can bite . This chase of the female swine I saw what ...
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... less enterprising kind , or enter- prising sportsmen without available mounts , who helped to drive the pigs by a fusilade directed against hog - deer , black partridge , florican , leek , and hare . Twelve days did this incomparable ...
... less enterprising kind , or enter- prising sportsmen without available mounts , who helped to drive the pigs by a fusilade directed against hog - deer , black partridge , florican , leek , and hare . Twelve days did this incomparable ...
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... less ; but not so my attendant , who foolishly em- braced the panther in view to arresting his flight : he got himself rather badly mauled , and did not come a whole man out of hospital for some weeks . That was was my disastrous ...
... less ; but not so my attendant , who foolishly em- braced the panther in view to arresting his flight : he got himself rather badly mauled , and did not come a whole man out of hospital for some weeks . That was was my disastrous ...
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