Kim

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Produced by Patricia Franks, Karyl Basmajian, Nancy K.

Smith, Dave Bruchie.

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

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Chapter 1

O ye who tread the Narrow Way

By Tophet-flare to judgment Day,

Be gentle when 'the heathen' pray

To Buddha at Kamakura!

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 uncertain

sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the