Colonel Boyle is still suffering over his crushing defeat at The Battle of the Big Green Hill by The Little Green Hill. To ease his mind a re-enactment of the battle is held. Blackfly wishes he were anywhere else but at Fort Simpson-Eaton because he was the Little Drummer Man that mislead the British at that crucial battle. Blackfly is frantic because Colonel Boyle might at last recognize him as the key to his military disgrace.