The first minutes of the movie; the first pages of the book.
'And thou?' laughed the woman. 'But speak well of bulls. Hast thou
not told me that some day a Red Bull will come out of a field to help
thee? Now hold all straight and ask for the holy man's blessing upon
me. Perhaps, too, he knows a cure for my daughter's sore eyes. Ask.
him that also, O thou Little Friend of all the World.'
But Kim had danced off ere the end of the sentence, dodging pariah dogs and hungry acquaintances.
'Thus do we beg who know the way of it,' said he proudly to the lama,
who opened his eyes at the contents of the bowl. 'Eat now and--I will
eat with thee. Ohe, bhisti!' he called to the water-carrier, sluicing
the crotons by the Museum. 'Give water here. We men are thirsty.'
Continued next week. Tomorrow's installment from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
Kipling's novel of India and the British empire, published in 1900.
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