But when the Junior Subaltern heard about you ugh! which is pretty well the worst you can say in That Country, and saw what Tiny was pretending over the flower-bed, he turned pale under the pink, and came up close, and whispered, "May I be so good as to ask you to splain yourself, Sir?" Then Tiny answered very short, "No, ye mayn't," which was a very favourite saying of his. Then the Junior Subaltern trembled, and answered rather hubbly-bubbly, "I shan't love _you_ any more, Captain Tiny." But Tiny just smacked the heads off Baby's flowers, and answered, "Don't then. Duncare." So the Junior Subaltern bowed up and down to Tiny's back, and strutted away, all puffed up like a little pouty pigeon, never to return till next day. But when Baby looked up from gardening the flower, and saw the bristles at the back of the Junior Subaltern's head as he marched away, she ran to Tiny, and dug his ribs with the trowel, and said, "What you been doing to my nice boy, pig?" Then Tiny bent and gardened a weed, and grumbled, "Only nothin." But Baby dug him some more, and said, "O you have!--look at the look of the back of his neck." So Tiny came up from the weed rather red and sulky, and said, "Only been teachin the boy manners--that's all." Then Baby said, "Well, I wish you'd leave teaching him to me," and she took Tiny's arm, and walked him up and down the grass-walk, with the dial at one end, and the herb-border on either side, all sweet in the evening, and taught him till he came good and nice and like you ought to be, if you are to live in That Country. And next morning on his way down to the Fort, Tiny tapped at little old Lollypop's lattice, and said, "Good-morning, kind Lollypop. Some red currants, please." Then Lollypop came out in a sun-bonnet; and her face was all wrinkles and redness like an old crab-apple; and she picked some currants, and did them up in a bag, and wiped her hands on her apron, and gave them to Tiny, saying, "There, young gentleman!" And Tiny gave her his penny pocket-money Baby had given him before he went out, for it was Saturday; and ran on down to the Fort with the bag. And when he got there he shared the currants with the Junior Subaltern on parade, when the Colonel had his back turned, which he had mostly always. And after that Tiny and the Junior Subaltern became better friends than ever till next time, which you do in that Army. 42 Meanwhile Jacky had gone down to the market, and taken off his Commander-in-Chief's clothes in public there, and sold them to the Junior Subaltern's mother; who laid them away in a drawer for her son, ready for Commander-in-Chief in days to come. And after that, Jacky swore by little Marwy, who was supposed to be dying, that he would have his ride on Goliath, or leave That Country. Then he went into hiding in the Wood, and sent round a message by Cooey to say he wasn't there.