Kim

By Kipling, Rudyard

Book Id: WPLBN0000625492
Format Type: PDF eBook:
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Kim
Author:	Kipling, Rudyard
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Kipling, B. R. (n.d.). Kim. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: Chapter One. O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet?flare to judgment Day, Be gentle when ?the heathen? pray To Buddha at Kamakura! Buddha at Kamakura. He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib?Gher?the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam?Zammah, that ?fire?breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green?bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot. There was some justification for Kim?he had kicked Lala Dinanath?s boy off the trunnions?since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English. Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother?tongue in a clipped uncertain sing?song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white?a poor white of the very poorest. The half?caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second?hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim?s mother?s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a Colonel?s family and had married Kimball O'Hara, a young colour-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment. He afterwards took a post on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway, and his Regiment went home without him.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Kim, 1 -- Rudyard Kipling, 1 -- Chapter I, 1 -- Chapter 2, 17 -- Chapter 3, 28 -- Chapter 4, 39 -- Chapter 5, 51 -- Chapter 6, 63 -- Chapter 7, 75 -- Chapter 8, 85 -- Chapter 9, 95 -- Chapter 10, 108 -- Chapter 11, 118 -- Chapter 12, 132 -- Chapter 13, 146 -- Chapter 14, 159 -- Chapter 15, 169