Make ready , chela . ' Kim turned to the woman with the turquoise headgear who had been idly pitching pebbles over the cliff . She smiled very kindly . ' I found him like a strayed buffalo in a cornfield -- the Babu ; snorting and sneezing with cold . He was so hungry that he forgot his dignity and gave me sweet words . The Sahibs have nothing . ' She flung out an empty palm . ` One is very sick about the stomach . Thy work ? ' Kim nodded , with a bright eye . ' I spoke to the Bengali first -- and to the people of a near-by village after . The Sahibs will be given food as they need it -- nor will the people ask money . The plunder is already distributed . The Babu makes lying speeches to the Sahibs . Why does he not leave them ? ' ` Out of the greatness of his heart . ' ` Was never a Bengali yet had one bigger than a dried walnut . But it is no matter ... Now as to walnuts . After service comes reward . I have said the village is thine . '
` It is my loss , ' XXXXX began .
Babu Bengali Kim Sahibs chela first headgear palm pebbles village