Thirty Years of ShikarW. Blackwood & Sons, 1895 - 373 páginas |
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... land . Fine old times , when the young civilian could , and did , live at the rate of £ 4000 or £ 5000 a - year on an income of £ 400 -making things go merrily during his collegiate days , and recking nothing of the years of sadness ...
... land . Fine old times , when the young civilian could , and did , live at the rate of £ 4000 or £ 5000 a - year on an income of £ 400 -making things go merrily during his collegiate days , and recking nothing of the years of sadness ...
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... land ) by a man in a tub who would not come on board the ship , but took in a supply of biscuit and water and was left in mid - ocean . It was a colonel from whom the wily snake escaped by entering a bamboo tail first , after that ...
... land ) by a man in a tub who would not come on board the ship , but took in a supply of biscuit and water and was left in mid - ocean . It was a colonel from whom the wily snake escaped by entering a bamboo tail first , after that ...
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... land at a point distant some two and a half or three miles from the jheel , and this distance had to be covered either by riding the mare known , for some recondite reason , as Shanks's , or such country tats as could thereaway be ...
... land at a point distant some two and a half or three miles from the jheel , and this distance had to be covered either by riding the mare known , for some recondite reason , as Shanks's , or such country tats as could thereaway be ...
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... land by drainage , as has happened with our Lincolnshire fens . There is nothing but the snipes ' caprice to explain it . This capriciousness on one occasion sold me ter- ribly . I was shooting over a chain of jheels in Oudh , and about ...
... land by drainage , as has happened with our Lincolnshire fens . There is nothing but the snipes ' caprice to explain it . This capriciousness on one occasion sold me ter- ribly . I was shooting over a chain of jheels in Oudh , and about ...
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... lands , and when my predecessor sought to drive this raja's cattle off the land where they trespassed , the myrmidon in charge challenged him to fight the matter out upon the spot . Right stood him in no stead when supported only by ...
... lands , and when my predecessor sought to drive this raja's cattle off the land where they trespassed , the myrmidon in charge challenged him to fight the matter out upon the spot . Right stood him in no stead when supported only by ...
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