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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... Kim was English. He was a poor white of the very poorest.
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From Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Kim is introduced as an Irish orphan gone native in Lahore, burned black by the sun, fluent in the bazaar, nicknamed 'Little Friend of all the World'—the central image of his hybrid identity.
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Kim earns his nickname through his cunning and ease with everyone: 'Little Friend of all the World.'
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