"Nay, Miss," said La Rue, "perhaps your mighty sense of propriety may lead you to tell her yourself...
2011-12-07
English idea, which is not adapted to him, and is-TO HIM-a nuisance, or to go it blind, without exp...
abundance of flowers, ornamental shrubs, a sundial, and lawns. In the river bottom land below the b...
gunbearer. In the rear seat were McMillan and myself, while a small black syce perched precariously...
Pleasant it was also to walk out from Juja in almost any direction. The compound, and the buildings...
formal garden, with a sundial, gravelled walks, bordered flower beds, and clipped border hedges. On...
and began to crop the grass, the shadows were lengthening through the trees. Then ahead of us an un...
accuracy. In spite of careful cleaning the barrel was in several places slightly corroded. For this...
minutes to raise my glasses for the periodical examination of the country. The mental focussing bac...
is certainly being "done well," and he enjoys the comfort of it. There comes a time when he begins ...
a fire and to make it quickly. For the past hour a fine drizzle had been falling; and the whole co...
As I have heard old hunters of many times my experience, affirm that only in a few instances have t...
red skin glistening; the long blade of his spear, bound around with a red strip to signify his offi...
And, as a friend remarked, rhinos are such a mussy death. One poor chap, killed while we were away ...
holding his hand behind his ear to catch the individual note, striking one on the shoulder in admon...