. The writings in prose and verse of Rudyard Kipling . isance to gosick in the middle of business. I am fond ofdrugs myself, and they are handy to cure poorpeople too. These are good departmental drugs— quinine and so on. I give it you for good-bye. I have urgent private businesshere by the roadside. He slipped out noiselessly as a cat, on the Um-balla road, hailed a passing ekka and jingled away,while Kim, tongue-tied, twiddled the brass betel-box in his hands. The record of a boys education interests fewsave his parents, and, as you know, Kim was anorphan. It is written in the b
. The writings in prose and verse of Rudyard Kipling . isance to gosick in the middle of business. I am fond ofdrugs myself, and they are handy to cure poorpeople too. These are good departmental drugs— quinine and so on. I give it you for good-bye. I have urgent private businesshere by the roadside. He slipped out noiselessly as a cat, on the Um-balla road, hailed a passing ekka and jingled away,while Kim, tongue-tied, twiddled the brass betel-box in his hands. The record of a boys education interests fewsave his parents, and, as you know, Kim was anorphan. It is written in the books of St. Xavierin Partibus that a report of Kims progress wasforwarded at the end of each term to ColonelCreighton and to Father Victor, from whose handsduly came the money for his schooling. It isfurther recorded in the same books that he showeda great aptitude for mathematical studies as wellas map-making, and carried away a prize {^he Lifeof Lord Lawrence, tree-calf, two vols., nine rupeeseight annas) for proficiency therein; and the same 268. KIM term played in St. Xaviers eleven against theAUyghur Mohammedan College, his age beingfourteen years and ten months. He was also re-vaccinated (from which we may assume that therehad been another epidemic of small-pox at Luck-now) about the same time. Pencil notes on theedge of an old muster-roll record that he waspunished several times for conversing with im-proper persons, and it seems that he was oncesentenced to heavy pains for absenting himselffor a day in the company of a street was when he got over the gate and pleadedwith the lama through a whole day down thebanks of the Goomtee to accompany him on theroad next holidays— for one month — for a littleweek; and the lama set his face as a flint againstit, averring that the time had not yet business, said the old man as they atecakes together, was to get all the wisdom of theSahibs and then he would see. The hand offriendship must in some way have
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