There is one piece of old greenish pipe amber, and a cut topaz from Europe.

There is one ruby of Burma, of two ruttees, without a flaw, and there is a balas-ruby, flawed, of two ruttees.

There is a carved ivory from China representing a rat sucking an egg; and there is last--ah ha!--a ball of crystal as big as a bean set on a gold leaf.' He clapped his hands at the close.
'He is thy master,' said Lurgan Sahib, smiling.
'Huh! He knew the names of the stones,' said Kim, flushing.

'Try again! With common things such as he and I both know.' They heaped the tray again with odds and ends gathered from the shop, and even the kitchen, and every time the child won, till Kim marvelled.
'Bind my eyes--let me feel once with my fingers, and even then I will leave thee opened-eyed behind,' he challenged.
Kim stamped with vexation when the lad made his boast good.
'If it were men--or horses,' he said, 'I could do better.

This playing with tweezers and knives and scissors is too little.' 'Learn first--teach later,' said Lurgan Sahib.