laughed Mahbub , looking at the little drenched figure dancing in the wet . ` Salaam -- Sahib , ' and he saluted ironically . ` Well , art tired of the Road , or wilt thou come on to Umballa with me and work back with the horses ? ' ' I come with thee , Mahbub Ali . ' Chapter 8 Something I owe to the soil that grew -- More to the life that fed -- But most to Allah Who gave me two Separate sides to my head . I would go without shirts or shoes , Friends , tobacco or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head . ' The Two-Sided Man . ` Then in God 's name take blue for red , ' said Mahbub , alluding to the Hindu colour of Kim 's disreputable turban . Kim countered with the old proverb , ' I will change my faith and my bedding , but thou must pay for it . ' The dealer laughed till he nearly fell from his horse . At a shop on the outskirts of the city the change was made , and Kim stood up , externally at least , a Mohammedan . Mahbub hired a room over against the railway station , sent for a cooked meal of the finest with the almond-curd sweet-meats -LSB- balushai we call it -RSB- and fine-chopped Lucknow tobacco . ` This is better than some other meat that I ate with the Sikh , ' said Kim , grinning as he squatted , ` and assuredly they give no such victuals at my madrissah . ' ' I have a desire to hear of that same madrissah . ' Mahbub stuffed himself with great boluses of spiced mutton fried in fat with cabbage and golden-brown onions . ` But tell me first , altogether and truthfully , the manner of thy escape . For , O Friend of all the World , ' -- he loosed his cracking belt -- ' I do not think it is often that a Sahib and the son of a Sahib runs away from there . ' ` How should they ? They do not know the land . It was nothing , ' said Kim , and began his tale .
When he came to the disguisement and the interview with the girl in the bazar , Mahbub XXXXX 's gravity went from him .
Ali Mahbub Sahib Sikh balushai boluses escape first madrissah sweet-meats