I am a Pathan ; thou art a Sahib and the son of a Sahib . Lurgan Sahib has a shop among the European shops . All Simla knows it . Ask there ... and , Friend of all the World , he is one to be obeyed to the last wink of his eyelashes . Men say he does magic , but that should not touch thee . Go up the hill and ask . Here begins the Great Game . ' Chapter 9 S ' doaks was son of Yelth the wise -- Chief of the Raven clan . Itswoot the Bear had him in care To make him a medicine-man . He was quick and quicker to learn -- Bold and bolder to dare : He danced the dread Kloo-Kwallie Dance To tickle Itswoot the Bear ! Oregon Legend Kim flung himself whole-heartedly upon the next turn of the wheel . He would be a Sahib again for a while . In that idea , so soon as he had reached the broad road under Simla Town Hall , he cast about for one to impress . A Hindu child , some ten years old , squatted under a lamp-post . ` Where is Mr Lurgan 's house ? ' demanded Kim . ' I do not understand English , ' was the answer , and Kim shifted his speech accordingly . ' I will show . ' Together they set off through the mysterious dusk , full of the noises of a city below the hillside , and the breath of a cool wind in deodar-crowned Jakko , shouldering the stars . The house-lights , scattered on every level , made , as it were , a double firmament .
Some were fixed , others belonged to the ` rickshaws of the careless , open-spoken XXXXX folk , going out to dinner .
English Hall Kim Lurgan Pathan Yelth firmament house-lights lamp-post medicine-man