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Kim

CHAPTER 1
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On no account was Kim to part with them, for they belonged to a great piece of magic--such magic as men practised over yonder behind the Museum, in the big blue-and-white Jadoo-Gher--the Magic House, as we name the Masonic Lodge.

It would, he said, all come right some day, and Kim's horn would be exalted between pillars--monstrous pillars--of beauty and strength.

The Colonel himself, riding on a horse, at the head of the finest Regiment in the world, would attend to Kim--little Kim that should have been better off than his father.

Nine hundred first-class devils, whose God was a Red Bull on a green field, would attend to Kim, if they had not forgotten O'Hara--poor O'Hara that was gang-foreman on the Ferozepore line.

Then he would weep bitterly in the broken rush chair on the veranda.


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