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This is to acquaint you that if your thrashing machines are not destroyed by you directly we shall commence our labours.My acquaintance with the barefoot ragpickers leads me to Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically.Naipaul1 'feels that some people are wounded by interviews and lose a part of themselves,' Lewis Carroll, the creator of Alice in Wonderland, was said to have had 'a just horror of the interviewer' and he never consented to be interviewed — It was his horror of being lionized which made him thus repel would be acquaintances, interviewers, and the persistent petitioners for his autograph and he would afterwards relate the stories of his success in silencing all such people with much satisfaction and amusement.Have you ever seen the damages caused to the crops, food items by insects, rodents, weeds and crop diseases etc? How can we protect them? You are acquainted with some insecticides and pesticides for protection of our crops.They weren t very good on the trapeze and their acquaintance with animals was only at the dinner table, but they presented two plays in a most professional manner.But it occurred to him that if the fine gentleman thought he was an old acquaintance, he might perhaps throw him a couple of kronor.He had a genuine love for anyone he came across and his house was a permanent residence for dozens of near and far relations and acquaintances.He looked at him with puckered brow, and it was easy to understand that when he had seen the strange fellow in the uncertain reflection from the furnace he might have made a mistake, but that now, when he stood there in broad daylight, it was impossible to mistake him for an old acquaintance.