said he . ` The air is good ; the water is good . Eh ? ' ` And they are all bound upon the Wheel , ' said the lama . ` Bound from life after life . To none of these has the Way been shown . ' He shook himself back to this world . ` And now we have walked a weary way , ' said Kim . ` Surely we shall soon come to a parao -LSB- a resting-place -RSB- . Shall we stay there ? Look , the sun is sloping . ' ` Who will receive us this evening ? ' ` That is all one . This country is full of good folk . Besides ' he sunk his voice beneath a whisper -- ` we have money . ' The crowd thickened as they neared the resting-place which marked the end of their day 's journey . A line of stalls selling very simple food and tobacco , a stack of firewood , a police-station , a well , a horse-trough , a few trees , and , under them , some trampled ground dotted with the black ashes of old fires , are all that mark a parao on the Grand Trunk ; if you except the beggars and the crows -- both hungry . By this time the sun was driving broad golden spokes through the lower branches of the mango-trees ; the parakeets and doves were coming home in their hundreds ; the chattering , grey-backed Seven Sisters , talking over the day 's adventures , walked back and forth in twos and threes almost under the feet of the travellers ; and shufflings and scufflings in the branches showed that the bats were ready to go out on the night-picket . Swiftly the light gathered itself together , painted for an instant the faces and the cartwheels and the bullocks ' horns as red as blood . Then the night fell , changing the touch of the air , drawing a low , even haze , like a gossamer veil of blue , across the face of the country , and bringing out , keen and distinct , the smell of wood-smoke and cattle and the good scent of wheaten cakes cooked on ashes .
The XXXXX patrol hurried out of the police-station with important coughings and reiterated orders ; and a live charcoal ball in the cup of a wayside carter 's hookah glowed red while Kim 's eye mechanically watched the last flicker of the sun on the brass tweezers .
Way day evening firewood mango-trees night night-picket resting-place shufflings tobacco