The Loom of Destiny/The Honour of the House of Hummerley

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THE HONOUR OF THE HOUSE
OF HUMMERLEY
An' some as this, an' some as that,
We drifts to th' ends of th' Earth;
An' if One turns 'Ome, it's Ten forgets:
W'ich shows their gawdless birth!

THE HONOUR OF THE HOUSE OF HUMMERLEY

HHIS real name was Hugh Edward Hummerley, but they called him Tiddlywinks for short.
As the son of an English major who once had fought real battles in India, and who now built the biggest bridges and the deepest canals in all the world, Tiddlywinks took life very seriously. Eighteen years in the Service had given Tiddlywinks' papa very deep-rooted ideas on the value of discipline, and people pitied Tiddlywinks, as a rule, and said that his father was too strict with the child. But then people did n't understand. He might have been just a little afraid of his papa at times, knowing that his spoken word was Law, but for all that the child loved him with a love that was unutterable in its depth.
So when Major Hummerley started away ​from Lonehurst for two years, to build one of his wonderful canals somewhere in South America, which was almost as far away as India itself, Tiddlywinks was unspeakably heavy of heart. His papa, in saying good-bye, had

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