Six Feet of the Country, Volume 1Seven stories of South Africa deal with a missing body, a mysterious Rhodesian visitor, a pass law protest, a white geologist and his Black secretary, and a pair of childhood sweethearts. |
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Page 81
... boys smoked in the lavatories and once there was a girl who came and lay down for them in a storm - water ditch behind ... boy's progress were so astonishing that , as he said to Miss Graham - Grigg , one felt one must give him all the ...
... boys smoked in the lavatories and once there was a girl who came and lay down for them in a storm - water ditch behind ... boy's progress were so astonishing that , as he said to Miss Graham - Grigg , one felt one must give him all the ...
Page 86
... boys of a lesser calibre - the inability , through lack of an assumed cultural background , to perform a piece of ... boy's face like obsti- nacy . ' I must , I must , ' he said , putting his palms down over the books . ' Good . Then ...
... boys of a lesser calibre - the inability , through lack of an assumed cultural background , to perform a piece of ... boy's face like obsti- nacy . ' I must , I must , ' he said , putting his palms down over the books . ' Good . Then ...
Page 88
... boys questioned ; there were special prayers said in the mornings and evenings . He had not taken anything with him except the fountain - pen . When everything had been done there was nothing but silence ; nobody mentioned the boy's ...
... boys questioned ; there were special prayers said in the mornings and evenings . He had not taken anything with him except the fountain - pen . When everything had been done there was nothing but silence ; nobody mentioned the boy's ...
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Contents | 7 |
Good Climate Friendly Inhabitants | 21 |
A Chip of Glass Ruby | 36 |
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