Wake ! It is found ! ' Kim came up from those deep wells , and the lama attended his yawning pleasure ; duly snapping fingers to head off evil spirits . ' I have slept a hundred years . Where -- ? Holy One , hast thou been here long ? I went out to look for thee , but ' -- he laughed drowsily -- ' I slept by the way . I am all well now . Hast thou eaten ? Let us go to the house . It is many days since I tended thee . And the Sahiba fed thee well ? Who shampooed thy legs ? What of the weaknesses -- the belly and the neck , and the beating in the ears ? ' ` Gone -- all gone . Dost thou not know ? ' ' I know nothing , but that I have not seen thee in a monkey 's age . Know what ? ' ` Strange the knowledge did not reach out to thee , when all my thoughts were theeward . ' ' I can not see the face , but the voice is like a gong .
Has the XXXXX made a young man of thee by her cookery ? '
Kim Sahiba days fed fingers gong house lama monkey years