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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... drink . I thought he meant we'd go into the hotel lounge , but he said , ' I've got a bottle of gin in the car , ' and he brought it up to my place . He was telling me about the time he was in the Congo a few years ago , fighting for ...
... drink . I thought he meant we'd go into the hotel lounge , but he said , ' I've got a bottle of gin in the car , ' and he brought it up to my place . He was telling me about the time he was in the Congo a few years ago , fighting for ...
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... drink . She followed him to his kitchen , but at the sight of her pulling out the single chair to drink her cup of coffee at the kitchen table , he said , ' No - bring it in here - ' and led the way into the big room where , among his ...
... drink . She followed him to his kitchen , but at the sight of her pulling out the single chair to drink her cup of coffee at the kitchen table , he said , ' No - bring it in here - ' and led the way into the big room where , among his ...
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... drinks last until very late . People drink more ; the women know this , and brew more . There is a fire but no one sits close round it . Without a moon the dark is thick with heat ; when the moon is full the dark shimmers thinly in a ...
... drinks last until very late . People drink more ; the women know this , and brew more . There is a fire but no one sits close round it . Without a moon the dark is thick with heat ; when the moon is full the dark shimmers thinly in a ...
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Contents | 7 |
Good Climate Friendly Inhabitants | 21 |
A Chip of Glass Ruby | 36 |
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