Beast and Man in India: A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in Their Relations with the PeopleMacmillan and Company, 1891 - 401 páginas |
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... school- boy on his to school way numbers of squirrels , much resembling the chipmunk of America , but he never throws a stone at them ; and the sparrow , the crow , the maina , and the hoopoe move from his path without a flutter of fear ...
... school- boy on his to school way numbers of squirrels , much resembling the chipmunk of America , but he never throws a stone at them ; and the sparrow , the crow , the maina , and the hoopoe move from his path without a flutter of fear ...
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... school - books , in which lessons on animal life and humane animal treatment are wisely included , may do something in the course of time to lighten this " blind side " of Oriental character , and in a few generations we may hope for an ...
... school - books , in which lessons on animal life and humane animal treatment are wisely included , may do something in the course of time to lighten this " blind side " of Oriental character , and in a few generations we may hope for an ...
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... school- boys . They have a game like the English boys ' cock of the dung - hill or king of the castle , but in- stead of pushing each other from the top of a knoll or dust - heap , the castle is a pendent branch of a tree . The game is ...
... school- boys . They have a game like the English boys ' cock of the dung - hill or king of the castle , but in- stead of pushing each other from the top of a knoll or dust - heap , the castle is a pendent branch of a tree . The game is ...
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... as much honoured in the breach as in the observance . Hindus of the old school complain of the decay under our educational system of pious household ritual and beliefs . Among these is a rustic observ- 136 CHAP . BEAST AND MAN.
... as much honoured in the breach as in the observance . Hindus of the old school complain of the decay under our educational system of pious household ritual and beliefs . Among these is a rustic observ- 136 CHAP . BEAST AND MAN.
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... school . There is a more profound convic- tion in Eastern superstitions , further intensified by the ever - present notion that once the beast was man . A current story tells how a poor man borrowed a sum of money far beyond his power ...
... school . There is a more profound convic- tion in Eastern superstitions , further intensified by the ever - present notion that once the beast was man . A current story tells how a poor man borrowed a sum of money far beyond his power ...
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