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Among Boers and Basutos: The Story of Our Life on the Frontier (Classic Reprint) Fanny A. Barkly No preview available - 2018 |
Among Boers and Basutos: The Story of Our Life on the Frontier (Classic Reprint) Fanny A. Barkly No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 273 - the rest of it. . . . Many scenes could be enumerated from Mr Wicks's novel which, in the essential satire of the situations and in the spirit in which they are described, would not disgrace the best English satirists. Of such are the first meeting of the subscribers to the Great Coradell (Limited), the Countess of Bolore's
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