My son is best in his mother 's arms . The Government has brought on us many taxes , but it gives us one good thing -- the te-rain that joins friends and unites the anxious . A wonderful matter is the te-rain . ' They all piled into it a couple of hours later , and slept through the heat of the day . The Kamboh plied Kim with ten thousand questions as to the lama 's walk and work in life , and received some curious answers . Kim was content to be where he was , to look out upon the flat North-Western landscape , and to talk to the changing mob of fellow-passengers . Even today , tickets and ticket-clipping are dark oppression to Indian rustics . They do not understand why , when they have paid for a magic piece of paper , strangers should punch great pieces out of the charm . So , long and furious are the debates between travellers and Eurasian ticket-collectors . Kim assisted at two or three with grave advice , meant to darken counsel and to show off his wisdom before the lama and the admiring Kamboh . But at Somna Road the Fates sent him a matter to think upon . There tumbled into the compartment , as the train was moving off , a mean , lean little person -- a Mahratta , so far as Kim could judge by the cock of the tight turban . His face was cut , his muslin upper-garment was badly torn , and one leg was bandaged . He told them that a country-cart had upset and nearly slain him : he was going to Delhi , where his son lived . Kim watched him closely . If , as he asserted , he had been rolled over and over on the earth , there should have been signs of gravel-rash on the skin . But all his injuries seemed clean cuts , and a mere fall from a cart could not cast a man into such extremity of terror . As , with shaking fingers , he knotted up the torn cloth about his neck he laid bare an amulet of the kind called a keeper-up of the heart . Now , amulets are common enough , but they are not generally strung on square-plaited copper wire , and still fewer amulets bear black enamel on silver . There were none except the Kamboh and the lama in the compartment , which , luckily , was of an old type with solid ends .
XXXXX made as to scratch in his bosom , and thereby lifted his own amulet .
Delhi Kamboh Kim North-Western fellow-passengers lama rustics te-rain ticket-collectors upper-garment