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Page 12
... followed by the rider who , but a few minutes since , was a bad 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 ...
... followed by the rider who , but a few minutes since , was a bad 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 ...
Page 48
... followed a time of much trouble before Mookerjie was made to pay into court the first instalment due under my order . Some days after this payment had been made a village watchman reported to me the disappear- ance of the woman . She ...
... followed a time of much trouble before Mookerjie was made to pay into court the first instalment due under my order . Some days after this payment had been made a village watchman reported to me the disappear- ance of the woman . She ...
Page 49
... followed her ; and ( 3 ) an idiotic peasant with the intellect of a buffalo swore that on or about that day he saw two men , whom he did not know and could not recognise , drag a strange woman , whom he could not recog- nise , off the ...
... followed her ; and ( 3 ) an idiotic peasant with the intellect of a buffalo swore that on or about that day he saw two men , whom he did not know and could not recognise , drag a strange woman , whom he could not recog- nise , off the ...
Page 97
... followed , and the contractor was by them forthwith abandoned as one to be safely recommended for inspection by Diogenes . This scorn for everything of a knavish character has another illustration that came to me on excel- lent ...
... followed , and the contractor was by them forthwith abandoned as one to be safely recommended for inspection by Diogenes . This scorn for everything of a knavish character has another illustration that came to me on excel- lent ...
Page 100
... followed by an hour among Tinsley's reliefs . " Whether as a District Magistrate in the wilds of Eastern Bengal , or as Chief Commissioner of Oudh , or as a member of the Viceroy's Council , or as a pensioner living in retirement among ...
... followed by an hour among Tinsley's reliefs . " Whether as a District Magistrate in the wilds of Eastern Bengal , or as Chief Commissioner of Oudh , or as a member of the Viceroy's Council , or as a pensioner living in retirement among ...
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