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Updated: July 12, 2025
Hurree Babu had seen all he wanted to see when he sat on the threshing-floor of Ziglaur, twenty miles away as the eagle flies, and forty by road that is to say, two small dots which one day were just below the snow-line, and the next had moved downward perhaps six inches on the hillside.
All we Babus talk English to show off; said Hurree, flinging his shoulder-cloth jauntily. 'As I was about to say, "Son of the Charm" means that you may be member of the Sat Bhai the Seven Brothers, which is Hindi and Tantric. It is popularly supposed to be extinct Society, but I have written notes to show it is still extant. You see, it is all my invention. Verree good.
I think Hurree Babu is getting too old for the Road. He likes better to collect manners and customs information. Yes, he wants to be an FRS. 'Hurree thinks well of the boy, doesn't he? 'Oh, very indeed we have had some pleasant evenings at my little place but I think it would be waste to throw him away with Hurree on the Ethnological side. 'Not for a first experience.
'I promise myself a peculiar pleasure in emptying my revolver into that young bonze when next we meet, was the unchristian answer. 'Revolvers! Vengeance! Bonzes! Hurree crouched lower. The war was breaking out afresh. 'Have you no consideration for our loss? The baggage! The baggage! He could hear the speaker literally dancing on the grass. 'Everything we bore! Everything we have secured!
The coolies, earth-coloured and mute, crouched reverently some twenty or thirty yards away, and the Babu, the slack of his thin gear snapping like a marking-flag in the chill breeze, stood by with an air of happy proprietorship. 'These are the men, Hurree whispered, as the ritual went on and the two whites followed the grass-blade sweeping from Hell to Heaven and back again.
He kept cool, however, and tried to conceal himself, but Hurree the malee, watering the plants early in the morning, spied him lying with his face on the earth and brought him to us. He seemed dead, but he was very much alive, as appeared when he was made to sit up and turned those wonderful eyes of his upon us.
To fight a fellow-Continental in our game is something. There is a risk attached, but these people bah! It is too easy. 'Pride all pride, my friend. 'Now what the deuce is good of Chandernagore being so close to Calcutta and all, said Hurree, snoring open-mouthed on the sodden moss, 'if I cannot understand their French? They talk so particularly fast!
I have friends in Chandernagore. 'He would certainly rejoice to see the Hills again, said Kim meditatively. 'All his speech these ten days past has been of little else. If we go together 'Oah! We can be quite strangers on the road, if your lama prefers. I shall just be four or five miles ahead. There is no hurry for Hurree that is an Europe pun, ha! ha! and you come after.
'If I had done it myself, thought Hurree, 'it would not have been better; and, by Jove, now I think of it, of course I arranged it myself. How quick I have been! Just when I ran downhill I thought it! Thee outrage was accidental, but onlee me could have worked it ah for all it was dam'-well worth. Consider the moral effect upon these ignorant peoples!
'Go back to the coolies, whispered the Babu in his ear. 'They have the baggage. The papers are in the kilta with the red top, but look through all. The other man comes! Kim tore uphill. A revolver-bullet rang on a rock by his side, and he cowered partridge-wise. 'If you shoot, shouted Hurree, 'they will descend and annihilate us. I have rescued the gentleman, sar.
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