[Kim by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookKim CHAPTER 8 23/46
Here he could command all the night-traffic, himself unseen. Two or three carts passed, jingling out to the suburbs; a coughing policeman and a hurrying foot-passenger or two who sang to keep off evil spirits.
Then rapped the shod feet of a horse. 'Ah! This is more like Mahbub,' thought Kim, as the beast shied at the little head above the culvert. 'Ohe', Mahbub Ali,' he whispered, 'have a care!' The horse was reined back almost on its haunches, and forced towards the culvert. 'Never again,' said Mahbub, 'will I take a shod horse for night-work. They pick up all the bones and nails in the city.' He stooped to lift its forefoot, and that brought his head within a foot of Kim's. 'Down--keep down,' he muttered.
'The night is full of eyes.' 'Two men wait thy coming behind the horse-trucks.
They will shoot thee at thy lying down, because there is a price on thy head.
I heard, sleeping near the horses.' 'Didst thou see them? ...
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