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JANUARY had bound the land in the hoary grip of frost , and the frozen patches of snow were lighting the darkness that lay beneath the shadow of the blackthorn hedges . The heather was stiff against my Wellington boots , and the snipe ...
JANUARY had bound the land in the hoary grip of frost , and the frozen patches of snow were lighting the darkness that lay beneath the shadow of the blackthorn hedges . The heather was stiff against my Wellington boots , and the snipe ...
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IF I could wish myself into the past for one brief visit , I would not ask to be carried off to the Court of Amenhotep or the Land of the Incas . I would like to take a much shorter journey , to the recent yet infinitely remote ...
IF I could wish myself into the past for one brief visit , I would not ask to be carried off to the Court of Amenhotep or the Land of the Incas . I would like to take a much shorter journey , to the recent yet infinitely remote ...
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66 down from it upon the arid , broken land of Tibet . One looks down upon the green , fertile valley of the Wye ; beyond it Fforest Fawr and still farther away Radnor Forest . I was born amid mountains many times higher than these ...
66 down from it upon the arid , broken land of Tibet . One looks down upon the green , fertile valley of the Wye ; beyond it Fforest Fawr and still farther away Radnor Forest . I was born amid mountains many times higher than these ...
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Contents
MY FIRST WINNER BY JOHN WELCOME | 43 |
A DISH OF CLAMS BY JOHN WELMAN | 70 |
PORTRAIT IN SHADOW BY HOWARD | 161 |
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