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English Reading - Чтение на английском Kim by Rudyard KIPLING


Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)

Born in Mumbai, India. He studied at boarding school in England, in 1882 he returned to India to work as a journalist. In 1889 he returned to London, in 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote Plain Tales From the Hills (1892), Barrack Room Ballads (1892), The Seven Seas (1896), Jungle Books (1894-1895), Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906), Something of Myself (1937).

http://english-reading-time.blogspot.com/2013/07/kim-rudyard-kipling.html.

 

There was some justification for Kim - he had kicked Lala Dinanath's boy off the trunnions - since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English. Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white - a poor white of the very poorest.

The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim's mother's sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a Colonel's family and had married Kimball O'Hara, a young colour-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment. He afterwards took a post on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway, and his Regiment went home without him. The wife died of cholera in Ferozepore, and O'Hara fell to drink and loafing up and down the line with the keen- eyed three-year-old baby. Societies and chaplains, anxious for the child, tried to catch him, but O'Hara drifted away, till he came across the woman who took opium and learned the taste from her, and died as poor whites die in India.

His estate at death consisted of three papers - one he called his ne varietur because those words were written below his signature thereon, and another his clearance-certificate. The third was Kim's birth-certificate. Those things, he was used to say, in his glorious opium-hours, would yet make little Kimball a man. On no account was Kim to part with them, for they belonged to a great piece of magic - such magic as men practised over yonder behind the Museum, in the big blue- and-white Jadoo-Gher - the Magic House, as we name the Masonic Lodge. It would, he said, all come right some day, and Kim's horn would be exalted between pillars - monstrous pillars - of beauty and strength.

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