We must wait . ' ` All one -- but if it were not the boy how did he come to speak so continually of thee ? ' ` And what said he ? ' asked the lama eagerly . ` Sweet words -- an hundred thousand -- that thou art his father and mother and such all . Pity that he does not take the Qpeen 's service . He is fearless . ' This news amazed the lama , who did not then know how religiously Kim kept to the contract made with Mahbub Ali , and perforce ratified by Colonel Creighton ... ` There is no holding the young pony from the game , ' said the horse-dealer when the Colonel pointed out that vagabonding over India in holiday time was absurd . ` If permission be refused to go and come as he chooses , he will make light of the refusal . Then who is to catch him ? Colonel Sahib , only once in a thousand years is a horse born so well fitted for the game as this our colt . And we need men . ' Chapter 10 Your tiercel 's too long at hack , Sire . He 's no eyass But a passage-hawk that footed ere we caught him , Dangerously free o ' the air . Faith ! were he mine -LRB- As mine 's the glove he binds to for his tirings -RRB- I 'd fly him with a make-hawk . He 's in yarak Plumed to the very point -- so manned , so weathered ... Give him the firmament God made him for , And what shall take the air of him ? Gow 's Watch Lurgan Sahib did not use as direct speech , but his advice tallied with Mahbub 's ; and the upshot was good for Kim . He knew better now than to leave Lucknow city in native garb , and if Mahbub were anywhere within reach of a letter , it was to Mahbub 's camp he headed , and made his change under the Pathan 's wary eye . Could the little Survey paint-box that he used for map-tinting in term-time have found a tongue to tell of holiday doings , he might have been expelled .
Once Mahbub and he went together as far as the beautiful city of Bombay , with three truckloads of tram-horses , and XXXXX nearly melted when Kim proposed a sail in a dhow across the Indian Ocean to buy Gulf Arabs , which , he understood from a hanger-on of the dealer Abdul Rahman , fetched better prices than mere Kabulis .
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