Among these ten I count the Babu , and that is curious . How great , therefore , and desirable must be a business that brazens the heart of a Bengali ! ' ` True . But the days go slowly for me . I am yet a boy , and it is only within two months I learned to write Angrezi . Even now I can not read it well . And there are yet years and years and long years before I can be even a chain-man . ' ` Have patience , Friend of all the World ' -- Kim started at the title . ` Would I had a few of the years that so irk thee . I have proved thee in several small ways . This will not be forgotten when I make my report to the Colonel Sahib . ' Then , changing suddenly into English with a deep laugh : ` By Jove ! O'Hara , I think there is a great deal in you ; but you must not become proud and you must not talk . You must go back to Lucknow and be a good little boy and mind your book , as the English say , and perhaps , next holidays if you care , you can come back to me ! ' Kim 's face fell . ` Oh , I mean if you like . I know where you want to go . ' Four days later a seat was booked for Kim and his small trunk at the rear of a Kalka tonga . His companion was the whale-like Babu , who , with a fringed shawl wrapped round his head , and his fat openwork-stockinged left leg tucked under him , shivered and grunted in the morning chill . ` How comes it that this man is one of us ? '
thought XXXXX considering the jelly back as they jolted down the road ; and the reflection threw him into most pleasant day-dreams .
Angrezi Babu Kalka Kim Lucknow O'Hara chain-man days left years