Many ages have crystallized it into a most wonderful convention crowded with hundreds of little figures whose every line carries a meaning . Few can translate the picture-parable ; there are not twenty in all the world who can draw it surely without a copy : of those who can both draw and expound are but three . ' I have a little learned to draw , ' said Kim . ` But this is a marvel beyond marvels . ' ' I have written it for many years , ' said the lama . ` Time was when I could write it all between one lamp-lighting and the next . I will teach thee the art -- after due preparation ; and I will show thee the meaning of the Wheel . ' ` We take the Road , then ? ' ` The Road and our Search . I was but waiting for thee . It was made plain to me in a hundred dreams -- notably one that came upon the night of the day that the Gates of Learning first shut that without thee I should never find my River . Again and again , as thou knowest , I put this from me , fearing an illusion . Therefore I would not take thee with me that day at Lucknow , when we ate the cakes . I would not take thee till the time was ripe and auspicious . From the Hills to the Sea , from the Sea to the Hills have I gone , but it was vain . Then I remembered the Tataka . ' He told Kim the story of the elephant with the leg-iron , as he had told it so often to the Jam priests . ` Further testimony is not needed , ' he ended serenely . ` Thou wast sent for an aid . That aid removed , my Search came to naught .
Therefore we will go out again together , and our XXXXX sure . '
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