Here begins the Great Game . ' Chapter 9 S ' doaks was son of Yelth the wise -- Chief of the Raven clan . Itswoot the Bear had him in care To make him a medicine-man . He was quick and quicker to learn -- Bold and bolder to dare : He danced the dread Kloo-Kwallie Dance To tickle Itswoot the Bear ! Oregon Legend Kim flung himself whole-heartedly upon the next turn of the wheel . He would be a Sahib again for a while . In that idea , so soon as he had reached the broad road under Simla Town Hall , he cast about for one to impress . A Hindu child , some ten years old , squatted under a lamp-post . ` Where is Mr Lurgan 's house ? ' demanded Kim . ' I do not understand English , ' was the answer , and Kim shifted his speech accordingly . ' I will show . ' Together they set off through the mysterious dusk , full of the noises of a city below the hillside , and the breath of a cool wind in deodar-crowned Jakko , shouldering the stars . The house-lights , scattered on every level , made , as it were , a double firmament . Some were fixed , others belonged to the ` rickshaws of the careless , open-spoken English folk , going out to dinner . ` It is here , ' said Kim 's guide , and halted in a veranda flush with the main road . No door stayed them , but a curtain of beaded reeds that split up the lamplight beyond . ` He is come , ' said the boy , in a voice little louder than a sigh , and vanished . Kim felt sure that the boy had been posted to guide him from the first , but , putting a bold face on it , parted the curtain . A black-bearded man , with a green shade over his eyes , sat at a table , and , one by one , with short , white hands , picked up globules of light from a tray before him , threaded them on a glancing silken string , and hummed to himself the while .
XXXXX was conscious that beyond the circle of light the room was full of things that smelt like all the temples of all the East .
Bear Chief Itswoot Kim firmament first globules house-lights lamp-post reeds