Opening Passage: Kim on the Zam-Zammah

From Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The novel opens with Kim astride the great gun Zam-Zammah outside the Lahore Museum, an iconic image of British imperial possession and Kim's defiant straddling of cultures.
Chapter 1

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.

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