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Kim

CHAPTER 11
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My son is best in his mother's arms.

The Government has brought on us many taxes, but it gives us one good thing--the te-rain that joins friends and unites the anxious.

A wonderful matter is the te-rain.' They all piled into it a couple of hours later, and slept through the heat of the day.

The Kamboh plied Kim with ten thousand questions as to the lama's walk and work in life, and received some curious answers.
Kim was content to be where he was, to look out upon the flat North-Western landscape, and to talk to the changing mob of fellow-passengers.

Even today, tickets and ticket-clipping are dark oppression to Indian rustics.


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