When next we see him, in
The Patchwork Girl of Oz, he is again referred to as the Soldier with the Green Whiskers; he is the only soldier in the Army, his beard is back to its normal length, and is now said to make him look taller than he really is. He is also referred to as the Emerald City Police Force. This may explain why
Jack Snow described Oz's jailer, Tollydiggle, as his wife — in
The Magical Mimics in Oz,
Betsy Bobbin is shown giving Omby Amby flowers and asking them to give them to his wife, Tollydiggle. No indication of any such relationship is found in Baum's books. Indeed, Baum does state that the Soldier has a wife, but she is one with a "terrible temper" — at least according to Jinjur — something not in evidence in Tollydiggle. Two lines may indicate where this interpretation comes from — he addresses Tollydiggle as "my dear" (fairly commonly used with friends in Oz books, especially from the Wizard), and that he says, "I know that very well," when Tollydiggle says, "it is impossible for anyone to escape from this house." While he continued to appear in most Oz books, his next major appearance was not until
The Wishing Horse of Oz, in which his beard turning red was the first indication of the magic of Skamperoo in his bid to conquer the Emerald City. It is initially suspected to be the red magic of
Jinnicky, but Gloma, the Witch of the Black Forest (implicitly the Good Witch of the West), assures Dorothy that it is green magic at work. With Ozma and many of her advisers, he is imprisoned at the bottom of Lake Lightning. In
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, author
Ruth Plumly Thompson constructed an elaborate family history for him under the name Wantowin Battles. In this book, Thompson portrays Wantowin as a pompous coward with bad aim who loves to eat
pickles. Jack Snow gave Wantowin, without a surname, his own entry in ''Who's Who in Oz'' as a result.
John R. Neill's editor picked up on the name and used it once in the rewritten portion of
The Wonder City of Oz. Snow also described him as Keeper of the Gates and Royal Army of Oz, and omitted an entry from ''Who's Who in Oz
of the Guardian of the Gates, who is clearly not the same person, as they speak to each other in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
, The Marvelous Land of Oz
, and The Patchwork Girl of Oz
. In The Scalawagons of Oz'', Omby Amby offers to take the Guardian's place so that he can take a Scalawagon to see his cousin, Oompa. James Haff did a major analysis of the character in
The Baum Bugle. He notes that he does not seem to have any real friends, although Haff does not note that he is shown playing
checkers with
Pastoria in
The Yellow Knight of Oz, and in Neill's books he appears to be good friends with the Guardian of the Gates, and is even shown waltzing with him in
The Scalawagons of Oz after getting up from a game of marbles when the music begins to play and having no one else around. Ironically, although Neill both wrote and illustrated, the Soldier is shown in illustration dancing with a woman in spite of the text. ==Portrayals==