'Is he thy master ?' 'Truly.

But how is it done ?' 'By doing it many times over till it is done perfectly--for it is worth doing.' The Hindu boy, in highest feather, actually patted Kim on the back.
'Do not despair,' he said.

'I myself will teach thee.' 'And I will see that thou art well taught,' said Lurgan Sahib, still speaking in the vernacular, 'for except my boy here--it was foolish of him to buy so much white arsenic when, if he had asked, I could have given it--except my boy here I have not in a long time met with one better worth teaching.

And there are ten days more ere thou canst return to Lucknao where they teach nothing--at the long price.

We shall, I think, be friends.' They were a most mad ten days, but Kim enjoyed himself too much to reflect on their craziness.