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Updated: May 28, 2025
And the glory of a hat is in its shining as much as its shape; even a black fellow knows that. But that hat very nearly led to serious trouble. For one thing, Mr. Colborn missed it; and never thinking Annie had given it away, when he saw the king sitting on the fence decorated with it, he stopped and interviewed him.
Colborn came out he tackled him with the air of a subject king demanding redress of his suzerain. "Well, Billy, what is it?" asked the suzerain. "You belong gublement?" said Billy the king, with a question, an implied doubt, and a great complaint in his voice. Colborn laughed. "Why, yes, Billy; I belong to the government, I suppose."
But he could make an inference from a positive fact, and, having made it, he did not allow more remote deductions to trouble his legitimate conclusion. He ceased to fear Mr. Colborn, and began to look upon the magistrate's property as if it were at least half his own.
What he would have said I do not know, for just then he heard a voice behind him: "Papa, it is my fault; I gave it to King Billy." Colborn turned round and took her up, letting fall the hat as he did so. Billy made a jump, picked it up, and, in his agitation, brushed it carefully the wrong way. "My dear, if you gave it to him it's all right. But why didn't the old fool tell me?"
One night, about a week after the meeting in the theatre, we three were sitting alone in my rooms, when the door opened and someone beckoned to Fox. He went out. Judge Colborn opened a window to see Fox getting into a carriage with a man from Church headquarters and we knew that our last worker was gone.
"Then," said Billy, "what you say to white fellow make 'um black fellow drunk, knock 'um all about? Call you that gublement?" And he showed his kingly robe, which had once been a frock-coat, with great disgust. However, he met with no favour, and was told that he should not get drunk that it served him right; with which magisterial decision Colborn got on his horse and rode off to the flat.
The question troubled King Billy greatly. He did not know that Mr. Colborn would as soon have thought of murdering Annie as of bullying her; so he lied promptly: "Me buy 'um, Mistah Cobon!" Mr. Colborn took it off of his head, and saw that it was his, as he had thought.
He got very intoxicated that night, and determined to have a party all by himself. Now it may seem very annoying, and I confess I find it so myself; but, having got so far, I don't see my way to tell the rest, even if Annie Colborn told me the story herself. For after her father's death she married a man who had a small sheep-station and a hotel not forty miles from Carabobla, in New South Wales.
Looking down, he surveyed the rest of his clothes, which in parts resembled the child's definition of a net as a lot of holes tied together with string, and, looking up, he inspected Mr. Colborn as if estimating the resources of his wardrobe. But being urgently smitten with the necessity of getting rid of his sixpence, he shambled off into the town.
Colborn gave him sixpence; and he gave Annie a great many kisses, declaring, with uncommon thoughtlessness, that whatever she did was right, and that she could give the king all his house, and Australia to boot. Whereon King Billy smiled a smile that was portentous, and showed his teeth to the uttermost recesses of his ample mouth.
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