African Pets: Or, Chats about Our Animal Friends in Natal : with a Sketch of Kaffir Life |
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... live amongst the trees on the border of the Limpopo , a river in Africa ; and our little pet had to travel a great , great many miles to the town where a friend of ours bought him of a black man . A little sister came with him in the ...
... live amongst the trees on the border of the Limpopo , a river in Africa ; and our little pet had to travel a great , great many miles to the town where a friend of ours bought him of a black man . A little sister came with him in the ...
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... live with us ; and this baby , who slept in a cot in our room , was accustomed to have a piece of bread and butter given to her the first thing in the morning , and no sooner did the greedy Eefit spy this out with his big sharp eyes ...
... live with us ; and this baby , who slept in a cot in our room , was accustomed to have a piece of bread and butter given to her the first thing in the morning , and no sooner did the greedy Eefit spy this out with his big sharp eyes ...
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... live in it , and I got a good many sharp nips on my hands in trying to induce him to enter his new abode . He perfectly hated being shut up , and no doubt he did feel very much cramped in his box - like house after the large airy room ...
... live in it , and I got a good many sharp nips on my hands in trying to induce him to enter his new abode . He perfectly hated being shut up , and no doubt he did feel very much cramped in his box - like house after the large airy room ...
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... live in the same house with me again . But alas for the weakness of human resolutions ! At my feet at this moment there lies curled up , and purring happily , a fat , sleek tabby ( not at all unlike my Eefit's murderer ) , and for whom ...
... live in the same house with me again . But alas for the weakness of human resolutions ! At my feet at this moment there lies curled up , and purring happily , a fat , sleek tabby ( not at all unlike my Eefit's murderer ) , and for whom ...
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... live amongst trees , particularly in a very pretty tree with thick leaves , called a ' loqûat . ' This snake is not so deadly as the black one , though his bite is very poisonous , -so the black people say , and they ought to know ...
... live amongst trees , particularly in a very pretty tree with thick leaves , called a ' loqûat . ' This snake is not so deadly as the black one , though his bite is very poisonous , -so the black people say , and they ought to know ...
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