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Updated: June 12, 2025
The air was full of the good news. The Chicadees felt it, and knew it through and through. They went mad with joy, chasing each other round and round the trees and through the hollow logs, shouting "The spring is here, the spring is here, Hurree, Hurree, Hurree," and in another week their joyous lives were going on as before the trouble came.
'He can go with the lama, and if Hurree Babu cares to keep an eye on them so much the better. He won't lead the boy into any danger as Mahbub would. Curious his wish to be an F R S. Very human, too. He is best on the Ethnological side Hurree.
The striped umbrella had been sighted half a march away, and Kim had suggested a halt till it came up to them. 'Ha! said Hurree Babu, resourceful as Puss-in-Boots. 'That is eminent local holy man. Probably subject of my royal master. 'What is he doing? It is very curious. 'He is expounding holy picture all hand-worked.
But as it was occasionally inexpedient to carry about measuring-chains a boy would do well to know the precise length of his own foot-pace, so that when he was deprived of what Hurree Chunder called adventitious aids' he might still tread his distances.
'And have you thought, said the uninjured man hotly, 'what sort of spectacle we shall present wandering through these hills among these aborigines? Hurree Babu had thought of little else for some hours, but the remark was not to his address. 'We cannot wander! I can hardly walk, groaned Kim's victim. 'Perhaps the holy man will be merciful in loving-kindness, sar, otherwise
Maynard, as he often did, composed a song for the occasion, and after once hearing it, the children took up the strain and sang heartily: "Old King Cole Rubbed a muddy old sole And a muddy old sole rubbed he; For he polished each shoe Of his sisters two, And his own shoes, they made three! Hurray, hurroo, hurree! And his own shoes, they made three!" Mr.
To keep count of thousands of paces, Hurree Chunder's experience had shown him nothing more valuable than a rosary of eighty-one or a hundred and eight beads, for 'it was divisible and sub-divisible into many multiples and sub-multiples'. Through the volleying drifts of English, Kim caught the general trend of the talk, and it interested him very much.
When the troops were withdrawn, I was left behind to pay the coolies who made new roads in the Hills. This road-making was part of the bond between Bunar, Hilas, and the Government. 'So? And then? 'I tell you, it was jolly-beastly cold up there too, after summer, said Hurree Babu confidentially. 'I was afraid these Bunar men would cut my throat every night for thee pay-chest.
You see, times are hard and Hurree has a large family, so he is obliged to eke out his salary by contract work for the mussaul. His work suffers from other interruptions. When the carriage of a visitor is heard, he has to awaken the chupprassee on duty at the door, and on his own account he goes out to drink water at least as often as the chupprassee himself.
Anywhere on the open road, perhaps, he would not have been astonished; but here, in this quiet backwater of life, he was not prepared for Hurree Babu. It annoyed him, too, that he had been hoodwinked. 'Ah ha! I told you at Lucknow resurgam I shall rise again and you shall not know me. How much did you bet eh? He chewed leisurely upon a few cardamom seeds, but he breathed uneasily.
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