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... second in the race . Some few horses take to pig - hunting so kindly that they may be ridden . with a loose rein and left to their own discretion in regard to following whitherward the pig may lead . Tartar , a Cape horse of Jack ...
... second in the race . Some few horses take to pig - hunting so kindly that they may be ridden . with a loose rein and left to their own discretion in regard to following whitherward the pig may lead . Tartar , a Cape horse of Jack ...
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... second promising impalement of riders ; and both are best negotiated at top speed , and best of all by an Arab . But riding a boar is not by any means the whole or even the best of the hunt ; there is the possible scrimmage after , or ...
... second promising impalement of riders ; and both are best negotiated at top speed , and best of all by an Arab . But riding a boar is not by any means the whole or even the best of the hunt ; there is the possible scrimmage after , or ...
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... second only to Government House , Calcutta , and it stood in a large nobly timbered park with which the Calcutta Palace grounds cannot be compared . Nor was the Mulnauth structure a whitened sepulchre wherein pretentious stucco sought ...
... second only to Government House , Calcutta , and it stood in a large nobly timbered park with which the Calcutta Palace grounds cannot be compared . Nor was the Mulnauth structure a whitened sepulchre wherein pretentious stucco sought ...
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... second and last reflection would be , Shall I be found out ? And if profit , however slight , and reasonable hope of security presented themselves , it is quite possible that other con- siderations 46 THIRTY YEARS OF SHIKAR .
... second and last reflection would be , Shall I be found out ? And if profit , however slight , and reasonable hope of security presented themselves , it is quite possible that other con- siderations 46 THIRTY YEARS OF SHIKAR .
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... Second in the public estimation comes another display of the amphitheatre and survival of the gladiatorial time - the contest between two picked men armed with quarter - staff , or sword or shield . Then , longo intervallo , comes kite ...
... Second in the public estimation comes another display of the amphitheatre and survival of the gladiatorial time - the contest between two picked men armed with quarter - staff , or sword or shield . Then , longo intervallo , comes kite ...
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