When he learns the man is in fact many men doing the same thing, he sets out to find Quisling and capture him.

He, believing it to be Grissel's gang plotting propaganda after he hears them make calls about disasters, follows the man to his house, and when he starts mowing his lawn, he rings the police asking them to come, due to stories where the hero is captured but the police come in the nick of time.

The man dismisses the police, rewarding William for his "efforts to the country" with money, a bun and lemonade.

William at first is indignant about being kept by his aunt, then he discovers the village she lives in isn't so dull after all... Two elderly gentleman, a colonel and another man find themselves bickering like they did the year before, and the one before that and so on, about their prizes.

The outlaws watch in awe, as "god like beings" walk in "thigh high boots" carrying hoses and dripping in endless water.

The officer of the area, Mr Perkins, decides that schoolboys shouldn't be parading with his men, and turn them out.

His band make their OWN fire squad area next to the garage in a spot of unused land that waits for them conveniently.

He takes it to the house of a Builder, and finds a scared women there, fretting over her war time recipes, which happen to include directions that don't even make sense to her.

Obviously taking a "wood corner" to be a piece of a chair or something, she hurriedly assumes William has every right to dump his barrow into the living room.

The outlaws build a fortress, made of sandbags and boxes, even equipped with 'little holes' to shoot their toy weapons through.

William hears at an air raid shelter that scrap iron should be collected more, as a local woman and her daughter have joined them this evening.

He finds the Bevertons exhibition of war memorabilia, even though he thinks it is simply scrap iron.

And the fact that William leaves his old junk on the exhibition table, leading to the guests believing it to be a plot to gain cash revenues, does not lessen the spirit of anger.

Meanwhile, after hours of nagging Mrs. Bott to give her land up for allotments to a "good cause", The Dig For Victory committee leaves angrily as she brandishes herself about in the air of one who is utterly annoyed.

When William takes it away and the Browns don't see it, she says it was a vision telling her to sell her land.

She gives William three pounds for the Spitfire Fund in hope that she will receive further good luck accounts.

William, inspired to do something good for the war cause, sees two men pulling up road signs, and tells them it would be better to turn them the other way, so Germans would get lost.

When he gets home, Robert asks him if he passed Laurel bank, as he admires a blonde young girl named Dulcie who lives there.

But when there (Colonel Peabody and Mr. Bagshott) gardeners find the name plates on the wrong houses, they dig up each growers pride and joy.

When William casually mentions the cakes and sweets they would receive at the party they were attending that evening, Ginger goes too.