Vulgar words in Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter (Page 1)
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When alone they are very taciturn, man and woman walking together, the man first with his _lathee_ or staff, the woman behind carrying child or bundle, and often looking fagged and tired enough.
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We could hear the swish of the river at no great distance, and soon, stumbling over bushes and bursting through matted chumps of grass, dripping with wet, and utterly tired and dejected, we reached the bank of the stream.
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We were now on this towing-path, and after riding for nearly four miles we reached the ghat, struck into the cart-road, and without further misadventure reached the factory about four in the morning, utterly fagged and worn out.
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On the way home we bagged a florican and a very fine mallard, and reached the camp utterly fagged, to find our worthy magistrate very much recovered, and glad to congratulate us on our having bagged the tigress.
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There are two sorts, the lesser and the greater, the former also called the bastard florican.
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It was now a question with me, how to rear the three interesting orphans; we thought a slut from some of the villages would prove the best wet nurse, and tried accordingly to get one, but could not.