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Updated: May 6, 2025
Then came the holidays from August to October the long holidays imposed by the heat and the Rains. Kim was informed that he would go north to some station in the hills behind Umballa, where Father Victor would arrange for him. 'A barrack-school? said Kim, who had asked many questions and thought more. 'Yes, I suppose so, said the master. 'It will not do you any harm to keep you out of mischief.
Kim yearned for the caress of soft mud squishing up between the toes, as his mouth watered for mutton stewed with butter and cabbages, for rice speckled with strong scented cardamoms, for the saffron-tinted rice, garlic and onions, and the forbidden greasy sweetmeats of the bazars. They would feed him raw beef on a platter at the barrack-school, and he must smoke by stealth.
You can go up with young De Castro as far as Delhi. Kim considered it in every possible light. He had been diligent, even as the Colonel advised. A boy's holiday was his own property of so much the talk of his companions had advised him, and a barrack-school would be torment after St Xavier's. Moreover this was magic worth anything else he could write.
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