Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 289W. Blackwood, 1961 - England |
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Page 301
... lived it . At long last then I arrive at what should have been my starting - point- a consideration of Collins's life and work . He was , if I am not mistaken , a characteristic man of his generation -the type of all that was most ...
... lived it . At long last then I arrive at what should have been my starting - point- a consideration of Collins's life and work . He was , if I am not mistaken , a characteristic man of his generation -the type of all that was most ...
Page 394
... lived on board . The distance was only a cable - two hundred yards ; I remember this because a messmate once bet me that I couldn't drive a golf - ball from the quarter- deck to pitch in the dockyard . I lost the bet ; the nearest I got ...
... lived on board . The distance was only a cable - two hundred yards ; I remember this because a messmate once bet me that I couldn't drive a golf - ball from the quarter- deck to pitch in the dockyard . I lost the bet ; the nearest I got ...
Page 457
... lived , in the long hot days before electricity . There are holes high up in the room walls where the punkah - cords passed outside to the punkah - wallah , squat- ting and dozing on the verandah . There are bigger ruins at the hill ...
... lived , in the long hot days before electricity . There are holes high up in the room walls where the punkah - cords passed outside to the punkah - wallah , squat- ting and dozing on the verandah . There are bigger ruins at the hill ...
Contents
ANIMALS LET YOU DOWN BY J K STANFORD | 404 |
AN UCKS FIRST GLIMPSES OF AUST BY JAMES HOPE | 436 |
ON HORSEBACK IN THE TRUCIAL STATES BY CAPTAIN A J RUNDELL R A | 465 |
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