No thatching grass is available, and so all the houses are thatched with a kind of plant called tara by the Abors, which is very like the tokopat used in many parts of Assam, but the lower stem of the tara is excessively thorny.

Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects.

He's standing at the edge, and I think he's about to jump.

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