For I have been jesting with a Butterfly ever since I came into the garden . ' And he told Balkis what he had done . Balkis -- The tender and Most Lovely Balkis -- said , ' O my Lord and Regent of my Existence , I hid behind the camphor-tree and saw it all . It was I who told the Butterfly 's Wife to ask the Butterfly to stamp , because I hoped that for the sake of the jest my Lord would make some great magic and that the Queens would see it and be frightened . ' And she told him what the Queens had said and seen and thought . Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud rose up from his seat under the camphor-tree , and stretched his arms and rejoiced and said , ' O my Lady and Sweetener of my Days , know that if I had made a magic against my Queens for the sake of pride or anger , as I made that feast for all the animals , I should certainly have been put to shame . But by means of your wisdom I made the magic for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly , and -- behold -- it has also delivered me from the vexations of my vexatious wives ! Tell me , therefore , O my Lady and Heart of my Heart , how did you come to be so wise ? ' And Balkis the Queen , beautiful and tall , looked up into Suleiman-bin-Daoud 's eyes and put her head a little on one side , just like the Butterfly , and said , ` First , O my Lord , because I loved you ; and secondly , O my Lord , because I know what women-folk are . ' Then they went up to the Palace and lived happily ever afterwards . But was n't it clever of Balkis ? THERE was never a Queen like Balkis , From here to the wide world 's end ; But Balkis tailed to a butterfly As you would talk to a friend . There was never a King like Solomon , Not since the world began ; But Solomon talked to a butterfly As a man would talk to a man . Chapter 1 O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day , Be gentle when ` the heathen ' pray To Buddha at Kamakura ! Buddha at Kamakura . He sat , in defiance of municipal orders , astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -- the Wonder House , as the natives call the Lahore Museum . Who hold Zam-Zammah , that ` fire-breathing dragon ' , hold the Punjab , for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror 's loot . There was some justification for Kim -- he had kicked Lala Dinanath 's boy off the trunnions -- since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English . Though he was burned black as any native ; though he spoke the vernacular by preference , and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song ; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar ; Kim was white -- a poor white of the very poorest . The half-caste woman who looked after him -LRB- she smoked opium , and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait -RRB- told the missionaries that she was Kim 's mother 's sister ; but his mother had been nursemaid in a Colonel 's family and had married Kimball O'Hara , a young colour-sergeant of the Mavericks , an Irish regiment .
He afterwards took a post on the Sind , XXXXX , and Delhi Railway , and his Regiment went home without him .
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