Indian Dust DevilsHobbs, 1937 - 138 pages |
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Page 27
... seemed to know anything about him . One Sunday morning he came home reeking with stale whisky and other habits , with an Mussalmani mercenary Venus in a ticca gharry . He was chewing pan and had a green parrot perched on his finger ...
... seemed to know anything about him . One Sunday morning he came home reeking with stale whisky and other habits , with an Mussalmani mercenary Venus in a ticca gharry . He was chewing pan and had a green parrot perched on his finger ...
Page 35
... seemed hot enough to melt brass . Out of doors it almost fried your eyes ; at night , the dâk bungalow was so stuffy it seemed to choke you . On my last day , although the train was not due until midnight I went to the station ...
... seemed hot enough to melt brass . Out of doors it almost fried your eyes ; at night , the dâk bungalow was so stuffy it seemed to choke you . On my last day , although the train was not due until midnight I went to the station ...
Page 120
... seemed to prefer being a refugee during the Great War to getting a bit of their own back on the hated Turk . There were so many of these concerts that I heard a High Court Judge while paying for a packet of tickets , sigh for the day ...
... seemed to prefer being a refugee during the Great War to getting a bit of their own back on the hated Turk . There were so many of these concerts that I heard a High Court Judge while paying for a packet of tickets , sigh for the day ...
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PUSH OFF A BIT BEHIND SCRATCH | 4 |
OUR GRIEF CHAMPION | 16 |
THE BOOK OF THE WORLD | 31 |
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