He goes about poisoning my servants for lack of their betters . ' ` What hakim , mother ? ' ` That very Dacca man who gave me the pill which rent me in three pieces . He cast up like a strayed camel a week ago , vowing that he and thou had been blood-brothers together up Kulu-way , and feigning great anxiety for thy health . He was very thin and hungry , so I gave orders to have him stuffed too -- him and his anxiety ! ' ' I would see him if he is here . ' ` He eats five times a day , and lances boils for my hinds to save himself from an apoplexy . He is so full of anxiety for thy health that he sticks to the cook-house door and stays himself with scraps . He will keep . We shall never get rid of him . ' ` Send him here , mother ' -- the twinkle returned to Kim 's eye for a flash -- ` and I will try . ' ` I 'll send him , but to chase him off is an ill turn . At least he had the sense to fish the Holy One out of the brook ; thus , as the Holy One did not say , acquiring merit . ' ` He is a very wise hakim . Send him , mother . ' ` Priest praising priest ? A miracle ! If he is any friend of thine -LRB- ye squabbled at your last meeting -RRB- I 'll hale him here with horse-ropes and -- and give him a caste-dinner afterwards , my son ... Get up and see the world ! This lying abed is the mother of seventy devils ... my son ! my son ! '
She trotted forth to raise a typhoon off the XXXXX , and almost on her shadow rolled in the Babu , robed as to the shoulders like a Roman emperor , jowled like Titus , bare-headed , with new patent-leather shoes , in highest condition of fat , exuding joy and salutations .
Dacca Kim Kulu-way Priest betters caste-dinner cook-house hakim hinds horse-ropes