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The copy in shishem wood of a carved window at Amritzar, in the Punjaub, with its overhanging cornice, ornamental arches, supported by pillars, and the whole surface covered with small details of ornament, is a good example of the sixteenth and seventeenth century work.
'Moreover, it cramps me. 'I say, began the money-lender, pursing his lips, 'that there is not one rule of right living which these te-rains do not cause us to break. We sit, for example, side by side with all castes and peoples. 'Yea, and with most outrageously shameless ones, said the wife, scowling at the Amritzar girl making eyes at the young sepoy.
'Because, said Kim stoutly, 'he is holy, and thinks upon matters hidden from thee. 'That may be well. We of the Ludhiana Sikhs' he rolled it out sonorously 'do not trouble our heads with doctrine. We fight. 'There are also some Dogra companies there. The soldier glared, for a Dogra is of other caste than a Sikh, and the banker tittered. 'They are all one to me, said the Amritzar girl.
'Oh, be silent, whispered Kim; 'are we Rajahs to throw away good silver when the world is so charitable? The Amritzar girl stepped out with her bundles, and it was on her that Kim kept his watchful eye. Ladies of that persuasion, he knew, were generous. 'A ticket a little tikkut to Umballa O Breaker of Hearts! She laughed. 'Hast thou no charity? 'Does the holy man come from the North?
An Amritzar courtesan near the window sniffed behind her head drapery. 'Enter! Enter! cried a fat Hindu money-lender, his folded account-book in a cloth under his arm. With an oily smirk: 'It is well to be kind to the poor. 'Ay, at seven per cent a month with a mortgage on the unborn calf, said a young Dogra soldier going south on leave; and they all laughed.
The girl looked up at the lama, who had mechanically followed Kim to the platform. He bowed his head that he might not see her, and muttered in Tibetan as she passed on with the crowd. 'Light come light go, said the cultivator's wife viciously. 'She has acquired merit, returned the lama. 'Beyond doubt it was a nun. 'There be ten thousand such nuns in Amritzar alone.
'Will it travel to Benares? said the lama. 'Assuredly. Else why should we come? Enter, or we are left, cried Kim. 'See! shrilled the Amritzar girl. 'He has never entered a train. Oh, see! 'Nay, help, said the cultivator, putting out a large brown hand and hauling him in. 'Thus is it done, father. 'But but I sit on the floor. It is against the Rule to sit on a bench, said the lama.
"Neither come thou hither, until thou art fully recovered," he added, "lest I use my force upon thee." If a certain beggar who had sat for a whole month outside the Golden Temple at Amritzar was to become reincarnated in the person of the idiot Burman, the Burman must have a reason to offer to the inquisitive for his temporary absence.
Macnamara's 'member old Mac, the Sapper, who played the fiddle so damnably at Umballa? Mac's party was the last but one. The last was Stalky's. He was at the head of the road with some of his pet Sikhs. Mac said he believed he was all right." "Stalky is a Sikh," said Tertius. "He takes his men to pray at the Durbar Sahib at Amritzar, regularly as clockwork, when he can."
The Amritzar girl smiled; for she knew the talk was to win her approval. 'Alas! said the cultivator's wife at the end. 'So their villages were burnt and their little children made homeless? 'They had marked our dead. They paid a great payment after we of the Sikhs had schooled them. So it was. Is this Amritzar? 'Ay, and here they cut our tickets, said the banker, fumbling at his belt.
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