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- Visit Tim and Zoe in Parkes and go to Western Plains Zoo – Excited to be heading there very soon.
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Parkes is obviously an historian, not a journalist.
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Parkes is obviously an historian, not a journalist.
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Loch, like Flashman, paints a most unpleasant picture of the warlord, who worked himself into a fury, storming and yelling abuse at his prisoners while his guards beat them, forced them to kneel, and rubbed Loch's face in the dirt; he called Parkes a liar, accused him of trying to humiliate the Emperor and of preparing a treacherous attack on the Chinese forces, and added "that he would teach us what it was to speak to high officers of the Celestial Empire in the manner in which they had been addressed yesterday" (i.e. at the Tang-chao meeting with Prince I).
Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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Loch, like Flashman, paints a most unpleasant picture of the warlord, who worked himself into a fury, storming and yelling abuse at his prisoners while his guards beat them, forced them to kneel, and rubbed Loch's face in the dirt; he called Parkes a liar, accused him of trying to humiliate the Emperor and of preparing a treacherous attack on the Chinese forces, and added "that he would teach us what it was to speak to high officers of the Celestial Empire in the manner in which they had been addressed yesterday" (i.e. at the Tang-chao meeting with Prince I).
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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Maybe aim for twice just to beat 2009.) - visit Tim and Zoe in Parkes and go to Western Plains Zoo
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Maybe aim for twice just to beat 2009.) - visit Tim and Zoe in Parkes and go to Western Plains Zoo
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You must visit next time you find yourself in Parkes.
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At this Prince I went wild, spitting curses, calling Parkes a foreign cur and reptile and I don't know what, and Parkes just smiled away and said Elgin would be there, and that was that.
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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At this Prince I went wild, spitting curses, calling Parkes a foreign cur and reptile and I don't know what, and Parkes just smiled away and said Elgin would be there, and that was that.
Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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