Therefore I would not take thee with me that day at Lucknow, when we ate the cakes.

I would not take thee till the time was ripe and auspicious.

From the Hills to the Sea, from the Sea to the Hills have I gone, but it was vain.

Then I remembered the Tataka.' He told Kim the story of the elephant with the leg-iron, as he had told it so often to the Jam priests.
'Further testimony is not needed,' he ended serenely.

'Thou wast sent for an aid.