After being tutored by his mother on the finer points of heraldic traditions and chivalric codes … and having listened to, read, and learned by heart the heroic tales told and written about some of the finest knight errants to have ever lived …
Ralphie, somewhat absentmindedly, somewhat determinedly, one day packs a bindle, ties it to a walking stick, and wanders away from his home in the enchanted forest of his youth, guilelessly venturing into the Land of the Clock-Watchers.