Once upon a time, there was a girl and her brother attending the same army school. As we all know that soldiers are great disciplinarians. It had been their usual act to brutalize any student that came late to school every morning before school morning devotion. Sometimes, they would ask the offenders to do frog jump, crawling, running on stones barefooted, rolling on the floor, washing the school toilet, beating the offenders on the tongues and fore- fingers and the likes.
These barbaric, inhumane and painful attitudes of the soldiers made the students to fear them seriously beyond imagination and expectation. Therefore, they came to school in time to avoid any brutality but there was no way students would not be caught coming late to school every morning and they went through these uncivilized punishments from their hands. The older the students, the harder the punishments given to the students. These behaviours were habitual and the students accepted their fate.
On one fateful morning, a boy called Richard with his younger sister, Bukky came late to
