'I thought thou hadst been a guide permitted.

Such things fall sometimes--but I am not worthy.

Thou dost not, then, know the River ?' 'Not I,' Kim laughed uneasily.

'I go to look for--for a bull--a Red.
Bull on a green field who shall help me.' Boylike, if an acquaintance had a scheme, Kim was quite ready with one of his own; and, boylike, he had really thought for as much as twenty minutes at a time of his father's prophecy.
'To what, child ?' said the lama.
'God knows, but so my father told me'.

I heard thy talk in the Wonder House of all those new strange places in the Hills, and if one so old and so little--so used to truth-telling--may go out for the small matter of a river, it seemed to me that I too must go a-travelling.