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His father assured him that not only would the breaking of arrest be condoned, but that the good-conduct badge would be restored as soon as his mother could sew it on his blouse-sleeve. Miss Allardyce had told the Colonel a story that made him proud of his son. 'She belonged to you, Coppy, said Wee Willie Winkie, indicating Miss Allardyce with a grimy forefinger.
Bowed forward and still flogging, Wee Willie Winkie shot into Afghan territory, and could just see Miss Allardyce a black speck, flickering across the stony plain. The reason of her wandering was simple enough. Coppy, in a tone of too-hastily-assumed authority, had told her overnight that she must not ride out by the river. And she had gone to prove her own spirit and teach Coppy a lesson.
Break out it would do what they might. I'm sure the bandages I've took off him in a morning " Betty clapped her hands. It was the signal that the reading was going to begin, and the matrons looked at her resentfully. What call had people to start reading when the talk was flowing so free and pleasant? Betty, rather pale, began: "This is a story about a little boy called Wee Willie Winkie."
There were urgent and imperative reasons why Major Allardyce should not know how matters stood for at least another month, and this small marplot had discovered a great deal too much. 'I saw you, said Wee Willie Winkie calmly. 'But ve sais didn't see. I said, "Hut jao!" 'Oh, you had that much sense, you young Rip, groaned poor Coppy, half amused and half angry.
The Tin Woodman sat on his glittering tin throne in the handsome tin hall of his splendid tin castle in the Winkie Country of the Land of Oz. Beside him, in a chair of woven straw, sat his best friend, the Scarecrow of Oz. At times they spoke to one another of curious things they had seen and strange adventures they had known since first they two had met and become comrades.
A yell of laughter interrupted him, but he went on firmly, "And if you do carry us away, I tell you that all my regiment will come up in a day and kill you all without leaving one. Who will take my message to the Colonel Sahib?" Speech in any vernacular and Wee Willie Winkie had a colloquial acquaintance with three was easy to the boy who could not yet manage his "r's" and "th's" aright.
"I have seen many queer creatures in the Land of Oz, but none more queer than this giant frog, who dresses like a man and walks on his hind legs. Come here, Wiljon," she called to her husband, who was eating his breakfast, "and take a look at this astonishing freak." Wiljon the Winkie came to the door and looked out.
If Wee Willie Winkie took an interest in any one, the fortunate man was envied alike by the mess and the rank and file. And in their envy lay no suspicion of self-interest. "The Colonel's son" was idolized on his own merits entirely. Yet Wee Willie Winkie was not lovely.
"Thank you, I guess I won't mind," responded Rob, in a dry tone, which made the others laugh. He already knew by experience something of the pony's capers, though it had been in Leo's possession only a few weeks; while Jack, having been away on a visit, had never driven Winkie. "Perhaps if you changed his name he would behave better," suggested Rob. "I did think of that," answered Leo, seriously.
Very early the next morning he climbed on to the roof of the house that was not forbidden and beheld Miss Allardyce going for a ride. 'Where are you going? cried Wee Willie Winkie. 'Across the river, she answered, and trotted forward. Now the cantonment in which the 195th lay was bounded on the north by a river dry in the winter.
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