` All Umballa is on the same errand . Get hence . They go in now with the soup . Think you that we who serve Creighton Sahib need strange scullions to help us through a big dinner ? ' ` It is a very big dinner , ' said Kim , looking at the plates . ` Small wonder . The guest of honour is none other than the Jang-i-Lat Sahib -LSB- the Commander-in-Chief -RSB- . ' ` Ho ! ' said Kim , with the correct guttural note of wonder . He had learned what he wanted , and when the scullion turned he was gone . ` And all that trouble , ' said he to himself , thinking as usual in Hindustani , ` for a horse 's pedigree ! Mahbub Ali should have come to me to learn a little lying . Every time before that I have borne a message it concerned a woman . Now it is men . Better . The tall man said that they will loose a great army to punish someone -- somewhere -- the news goes to Pindi and Peshawur . There are also guns . Would I had crept nearer . It is big news ! ' He returned to find the cultivator 's cousin 's younger brother discussing the family law-suit in all its bearings with the cultivator and his wife and a few friends , while the lama dozed .
After the evening meal some one passed him a water-pipe ; and XXXXX felt very much of a man as he pulled at the smooth coconut-shell , his legs spread abroad in the moonlight , his tongue clicking in remarks from time to time .
Ali Hindustani Ho Kim Peshawur Pindi cultivator lama law-suit scullion