"I’m not going," he said firmly, "not to-morrow. Why, I haven’t said good-bye to none of them, have you?" "I don’t know what you’re talking about," said nurse huffily; "give me that doll at once, you know I don’t allow disobedience." And as she spoke she made a grab at the doll. Teddy held on with all his strength. They were starting for Kingussie a day earlier than had been originally intended, and it had only been decided upon that morning. Mummy had taken it upon herself to send Girzie out with Teddy, leaving nurse free to pack. This had upset all nurse’s plans, and left Sergeant-Major Macdonald kicking his heels during a vain wait at the bottom of the hill, while Girzie and Teddy went off in quite another direction. Therefore nurse was decidedly irritable, and rather roughly tried to pull Colin Dougal out of Teddy’s arms. For a full minute Teddy held on with all his little strength, then suddenly and despairingly let go. And at the same instant nurse also let go, remembering that it was undignified to struggle with a small child for the possession of a china doll. Colin Dougal fell with a thump upon the floor, one of his china legs broke right in two, and the severed half leapt gaily under a chair. Teddy took a deep breath and yelled and yelled and yelled. Papa and mummy heard him in the drawing-room, and rushed to the nursery to see what had happened. He was standing stock still just inside the door. Nurse had picked up Colin Dougal and the bit of his leg, and was vainly trying to explain to her demented charge that it could easily be mended. But Teddy struck at her with both his hands, and refused to be comforted. He also continued to bawl with unabated vigour after his parents had entered the room. "What’s this? What’s this?" exclaimed papa. "Are you hurt, my precious?" mummy inquired tenderly, as she knelt beside her little boy. Teddy did not repulse his mother, and managed to ejaculate in the middle of a roar, "I don’t _want_ to go to Kingussie!" The accident to Colin Dougal seemed a minor woe, caused by, and included in, this devastating news of departure. "Nonsense!" papa exclaimed, looking pained; "not want to go to Kingussie! Why, it’s country—real, beautiful, quiet country—far better than this place, with those infernal bugles braying from morning till night, and the horrid band, and air those tramping soldiers. You’ll love Kingussie." Teddy stopped afresh in the midst of renewed efforts in the way of yells to hiccough indignantly "not—’fernal bugles!" Papa looked rather surprised, but his pained look returned as Teddy started to shout again at the top of his voice. Nurse, taking advantage of the general confusion, packed Colin Dougal, and actually wrapped up the piece of his leg in a separate bit of paper with cold-blooded detachment.