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[Illustration: Kim.]
KIM
Rudyard Kipling
[Illustration]
_Doubleday & Company, Inc._
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1900, 1901
BY RUDYARD KIPLING
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Printed in the United States of America
KIM
CHAPTER I
'Oh ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day, Be gentle when the heathen pray To Buddha at Kamakura!'
HE sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher--the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon,' hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot.
There was some justification for Kim,--he had kicked Lala Dinanath's boy off the trunnions,--since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English. Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- 2: In the big blue and white Jadoo Gher the Magic House
- 3: 'The Hindus fell off Zam Zammah too
- 4: Child a hillman from hills thou'lt never see
- 5: A white bearded Englishman was looking at the lama
- 6: 'Out shuffled the lama to the main hall
- 7: ''First to Kashi Benares where else
- 8: Detached the open iron work pencase
- 9: Hast thou turned yogi with thy begging bowl
- 10: As would a chela for his teacher
- 11: 'We shall get good lodging at the Kashmir Serai
- 12: And Mahbub would listen without a word or gesture
- 13: Greasy Mussalman bread to the boy
- 14: But Kim did not suspect that Mahbub Ali
- 15: Aided by a smooth faced Kashmiri pundit
- 16: And Farrukh Shah all heads of Kafilas who deal there
- 17: Now give the ticket to Umballa
- 18: Scowling at the Amritzar girl making eyes at the young sepoy
- 19: This ticket is only to Amritzar
- 20: 'A ticket a little tikkut to Umballa O Breaker of Hearts
- 21: 'Though past question we have good Gods Jullundur way
- 22: The low droning 'Om mane pudme hum
- 23: ' said the cultivator's wife to Kim
- 24: Kim saw their heads bent over Mahbub Ali's message
- 25: The kitchen was crowded with excited scullions
- 26: ' This Kim had from the woman who took care of him
- 27: The lama insisted on departure
- 28: ' Kim wiped the sweat from his forehead
- 29: ''But I would go to Benares to Benares
- 30: ' Kim took a few paces in a stiff
- 31: And ragged Kim against the purple twilight
- 32: Child from Kulu to Pathankot from Kulu
- 33: ' said the lama on the last bead of his eighty one
- 34: ' the lama muttered half to himself
- 35: 'Three ressaldar majors in three regiments
- 36: Lances of North take vengeance for Nikal Seyn
- 37: That is the way to ruin a mare
- 38: ' Kim half crooked his hand at his side
- 39: For the Sansi is deep pollution
- 40: Are all that mark a parao on the Grand Trunk
- 41: Which had just been drawn into the parao
- 42: 'Again one of the Ooryas said something contemptuously
- 43: Kim took it and salaamed profoundly
- 44: And so afterwards I go to Buddh Gaya
- 45: Kim would have given his ears to come too
- 46: The Oorya grunted and held his peace
- 47: Kim chewing his stick of sugar cane
- 48: One of the Ooryas half apologised for his rudeness overnight
- 49: ' Kim spoke as might have Solomon
- 50: The drawing in the dust by the priest at Umballa
- 51: As we marched marched marched with the Mulligan Guards
- 52: Close pressed behind the mango tree
- 53: Kim flinched under the leather
- 54: ''Eye rishti that was the regiment my father's
- 55: ' The lama addressed himself to Kim
- 56: It is so verree valuable to us
- 57: You see he always wants to be quiett
- 58: ' Father Victor saw Kim edging towards the door
- 59: ' Kim shook his head violently
- 60: 'But you will not go to Sanawar
- 61: The buck Brahmin evaporates without explanations
- 62: And Kim continued his interrupted nap
- 63: Mechanically Kim squatted beside him
- 64: Is it Mahbub Ali the great dealer
- 65: Kim would have been almost depressed
- 66: Mahbub Ali was hard upon boys who knew
- 67: Kim replied therefore 'Bay mare
- 68: And Mahbub stared deliberately at the Englishman
- 69: He's gone off to collogue with Mahbub
- 70: 'A letter from my lama which he wrote from Jagadhir Road
- 71: Doughty certified me medically unfit
- 72: 'At least Lucknow is nearer to Benares than Umballa
- 73: Nor would Mahbub Ali's tone have changed
- 74: Was one with Bibi Miriam of Mahbub Ali's theology
- 75: He will use me as Mahbub Ali employed me
- 76: Drive me a little through the bazars here
- 77: ' Kim snarled over his shoulder
- 78: Snuffing between each long stride
- 79: Kim did not sweep the board with his reminiscences
- 80: ' Kim shifted from foot to foot
- 81: Let the Hand of Friendship turn aside the Whip of Calamity
- 82: 'and assuredly they give no such victuals at my madrissah
- 83: ' growled Mahbub Ali to himself
- 84: To Mahbub Ali's bulkhead in the serai
- 85: But when the madrissah is shut
- 86: And Kim lay out behind the little knot of Mahbub's followers
- 87: I know not where Mahbub houses
- 88: I come to look for Lutuf Ullah
- 89: Lutuf Ullah ''Never mind your partner
- 90: Very many Sahibs travel along the Kalka road
- 91: I will go out of that madrissah in Nucklao and
- 92: And nearly drowned Kim among the dancing boulders
- 93: Lurgan Sahib himself asked for thee
- 94: 'I think that Lurgan Sahib wishes to make me afraid
- 95: ' Then in Hindi 'But what does he gain
- 96: Turquoise and raw amber necklaces
- 97: As Lurgan Sahib moved his hand
- 98: ''Kubbee kubbee nahin' never never
- 99: The four ruttee sapphire is chipped at the edge
- 100: Actually patted Kim on the back
- 101: How soon can he become approximately effeecient chain man
- 102: As Lurgan Sahib had assured him
- 103: Kim caught the general trend of the talk
- 104: Now the days of an elephant let all listen to the Jataka
- 105: And perforce ratified by Colonel Creighton
- 106: Next holidays he was out with Mahbub
- 107: Mahbub forestalled and embraced him
- 108: I am wearied of that madrissah
- 109: 'Do you know what Hurree Babu really wants
- 110: If you succeed in becoming pukka
- 111: She swore by the Djinns 'O Buktanoos
- 112: ' Huneefa felt her way back from an inner room
- 113: And Huneefa is surely a mistress of dawut
- 114: Kim yawned and stretched himself
- 115: You say Let me see the tarkeean
- 116: Kim drew a deep breath and hugged himself all over
- 117: Kim was guided to the Temple of the Tirthankers
- 118: A white clad Oswal banker from Ajmir
- 119: 'The Jat burst into a roar of laughter
- 120: Is as though I were in my own Bhotiyal
- 121: A Jain priest crossed the court
- 122: ' said the lama to all the Jains
- 123: 'The Jats are called quarrelsome
- 124: Kim was content to be where he was
- 125: 'But all women can cook tarkeean
- 126: But I broke through at Bandakui
- 127: Kim turned it over with the air of a wise warlock
- 128: 'We must make thee a yellow Saddhu all over
- 129: Gave himself up to the opium that is meat
- 130: At which Kim naturally rejoiced
- 131: The Saddhu followed the policeman
- 132: A new one each evening so far as Kim was concerned
- 133: ' the lama looked directly at Kim
- 134: But I would ask thy Holy One stand aside
- 135: But a most sober Bengali from Dacca a master of medicine
- 136: ' piped the voice inside the palanquin
- 137: ''If the Sahiba knew ' Kim began
- 138: ''That is so verree disconcerting of the European
- 139: ''They are well received by Hilas and Bunar
- 140: I shall go to Mussoorie to good old Mussoorie Pahar
- 141: And when the morning toilet was over Hurree Babu
- 142: The Hurree Babu of his knowledge oily
- 143: See the women do not follow thy chela too openly
- 144: That he went utterly away from Kim
- 145: But what should such folk care for the Devil of Eua
- 146: Thatt is their short road down the river by Bunji and Astor
- 147: The lama had led Kim by cow track and byroad
- 148: At least the Babu would be a witness to oppression
- 149: He skipped nimbly from one kilta to the next
- 150: And Kim had suggested a halt till it came up to them
- 151: They have sent nothing back from Hilas or Leh
- 152: And Kim hurried upward through the gloom
- 153: 'So I did when Yankling Sahib twisted his foot beyond Astor
- 154: 'I have been Fostum Sahib's shikarri
- 155: And farther from Shamlegh to Shamlegh midden
- 156: And in the kiltas lay eight months of good diplomacy
- 157: If anything is not needed in the kilta see here
- 158: Shamlegh kitchen midden took the dunnage
- 159: Sticky oilcloth at the corners
- 160: I am at Shamlegh under the Snow
- 161: And sought Kailung under the glaciers
- 162: Shall we wait awhile at Shamlegh
- 163: Ignorance and Lust met Ignorance and Lust upon the road
- 164: ''Shall we at least wait for the hakim
- 165: And drew aside to let Kim see his own utter helplessness
- 166: But his eyes that hung on Kim were alive and imploring
- 167: 'She has acquired merit beyond all others
- 168: Twelve miles a day has the dooli travelled
- 169: '''Was never a Sahib like thee
- 170: Let us talk of the woman from Kulu
- 171: Explained low voicedly by the lama
- 172: But he represented the authority of the Sahiba
- 173: The hakim is brought very low these days
- 174: You are offeecially subordinate to me
- 175: And I am glad Mahbub was close by
- 176: 'What a beast of wonder is a Babu
- 177: ''The Sahiba is a heart of gold
- 178: ' Mahbub choked down his touch of spleen and rose laughing
- 179: And the lama attended his yawning pleasure
- 180: Which is the soul of Teshoo Lama