Five and Twenty Ponies
The Characters
Captain John Woods — Played by that versatile thespian, Umpire Steve Cast!
Captain John Woods was Mike’s cardboard Character and oh boy, did he cause Mike some problems!
Colonel Wood was formerly of the 2nd Royal North Dragoons (Scots Greys). He served with them for many years and purchased a Colonels commission a few yearn before he retired at the age of 52. Selling his commission for a substantial sum he settled down to retirement until his wife died unexpectedly some 5 years later.
He decided to found the Padfordshire Yeomanry and moved to Port Knappwell to take up his post as their Captain. His command was made up of old comrades in arms and their collective age was 550 but what they lacked in sinew they made up for in experience.
Nominally under the command of Mike, Woods was his own man and didn't take to being ordered around by a "scribe ". He had a tendency, like any good British cavalry officer should, to be hot headed and reckless. On many occasion he ordered his men to ransack the house of a suspect whether he was guilty or not. This stemmed from the "good old days " in Ireland where a heavy hand was the only thing the peasantry understood. Seeing all smugglers as peasants, he vowed to bring them to heel as he did "with them in Ireland".
Nicknaming him "Bloody Jack" the smuggling gangs of Padfordshire trembled with
fear when they knew Woods was on their trail.
He had only one objective, to have some fun.
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