` True : but one pace beyond the Border , men are wiser . Put it away ; but fill it first . Of what use is a gun unfed ? ' ` When I go back to the madrissah I must return it . They do not allow little guns . Thou wilt keep it for me ? ' ` Son , I am wearied of that madrissah , where they take the best years of a man to teach him what he can only learn upon the Road . The folly of the Sahibs has neither top nor bottom . No matter . Maybe thy written report shall save thee further bondage ; and God He knows we need men more and more in the Game . ' They marched , jaw-bound against blowing sand , across the salt desert to Jodhpur , where Mahbub and his handsome nephew Habib Ullah did much trading ; and then sorrowfully , in European clothes , which he was fast outgrowing , Kim went second-class to St Xavier 's . Three weeks later , Colonel Creighton , pricing Tibetan ghost-daggers at Lurgan 's shop , faced Mahbub Ali openly mutinous . Lurgan Sahib operated as support in reserve . ` The pony is made -- finished -- mouthed and paced , Sahib ! From now on , day by day , he will lose his manners if he is kept at tricks . Drop the rein on his back and let go , ' said the horse-dealer . ` We need him . ' ` But he is so young , Mahbub -- not more than sixteen -- is he ? ' ` When I was fifteen , I had shot my man and begot my man , Sahib . ' ` You impenitent old heathen ! '
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