Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 296William Blackwood, 1964 - England |
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Half an hour before first light we shall impose a close donkey cordon round Tarkhat and then , as dawn breaks , the bicycle patrols will speed in , piquet the village and help Special Branch with the search .
Half an hour before first light we shall impose a close donkey cordon round Tarkhat and then , as dawn breaks , the bicycle patrols will speed in , piquet the village and help Special Branch with the search .
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I was living , in 1914 , in a tiny Lincolnshire village . It was not one of our cosy English villages , but just a small straggle of unattractive brick cottages running down to the moor . Even the church was new , and the incumbent ...
I was living , in 1914 , in a tiny Lincolnshire village . It was not one of our cosy English villages , but just a small straggle of unattractive brick cottages running down to the moor . Even the church was new , and the incumbent ...
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A milking herd follows its leader into the village each morning , and the village women , bringing their own crocks , wait for them to be filled while catching up on all that entrancing conversation that did not get completed yesterday ...
A milking herd follows its leader into the village each morning , and the village women , bringing their own crocks , wait for them to be filled while catching up on all that entrancing conversation that did not get completed yesterday ...
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Contents
A FORMER PROCONSUL BY DENIS CAREY | 96 |
THE HUNTING OF ARIF SAID BY JOHN PEMBROKE | 192 |
BALMORAL INTERLUDE BY MOLLY DICKINS | 288 |
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