Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net KIM BOOKS BY RUDYARD KIPLING A Book of Words Actions and Reactions A Kipling Pageant Captains Courageous Collected Dog Stories Collected Verse Debits and Credits Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads Diversity of Creatures France at War From Sea to Sea His Apologies If Independence Just So Song Book Just So Stories Kim Land and Sea Tales Letters of Travel Life's Handicap: _Being Stories of Mine Own People_ Limits and Renewals Many Inventions Plain Tales from the Hills Puck of Pook's Hill Rewards and Fairies Rudyard Kipling's Inclusive Verse, 1885-1932 Soldier Stories Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, and In Black and White Songs for Youth Songs from Books Stalky & Co. Supplication of the Black Aberdeen The Complete Stalky & Co. The Day's Work The Eyes of Asia The Five Nations The Humorous Tales of Rudyard Kipling The Irish Guards in the Great War The Jungle Book The Jungle Book, _Special Illustrated Edition_ The Kipling Birthday Book The Light That Failed The Naulahka (_With Wolcott Balestier_) The Second Jungle Book The Seven Seas The Two Jungle Books The Years Between "Thy Servant A Dog" Traffics and Discoveries Under the Deodars, the Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Wee Willie Winkie [Illustration: Kim.] KIM Rudyard Kipling [Illustration] _Doubleday & Company, Inc._ GARDEN CITY NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1900, 1901 BY RUDYARD KIPLING ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CL Printed in the United States of America KIM CHAPTER I 'Oh ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day, Be gentle when the heathen pray To Buddha at Kamakura!' HE sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher--the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon,' hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot.