Of all the boys hurrying back to St Xavier's, from Sukkur in the sands to Galle beneath the palms, none was so filled with virtue as Kimball O'Hara, jiggeting down to Umballa behind Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, whose name on the books of one section of the Ethnological Survey was R.17.
And if additional spur were needed, the Babu supplied it.

After a huge meal at Kalka, he spoke uninterruptedly.

Was Kim going to school?
Then he, an M A of Calcutta University, would explain the advantages of education.

There were marks to be gained by due attention to Latin and Wordsworth's Excursion (all this was Greek to Kim).

French, too was vital, and the best was to be picked up in Chandernagore a few miles from Calcutta.