So, after waiting faithfully for days and days and days, they agreed they could wait no longer.
He was a Redcoat Captain in the Army of That Country: she was the daughter of the merry lady who lived among rooks.
His had jolly little curls all over, with blue eyes under: hers was chestnut, with grey eyes like clouds in a lake.
She was between ten and twenty: he was a little more.
He was so tall that the Fellows called him Tiny: her name was Mabel, so they called her Baby.
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So Tiny came to the Fort on the Hill where the sun used to set; and it was noon.
And the Fort was a round wall with a barrack-square inside. And through a hole in the wall a great cannon of artillery peeped out over the country to keep Them down: for They were always supposed to be there, though nobody had ever seen Them.
Then Tiny climbed in through the cannon-hole, and on to the barrack-square, where nobody was now only the back-view of Goliath, the elephant, whisking his tail in the stable, while the Boy, who saw to him, slept among his feet.
So Tiny walked across the square in the sun till he came to a door in the dark of the wall. And on the door was painted in white letters