He went home to that as surely as the labourer to his evening platter.
And now we come to the affair of the Slugs.

Corp had got a holiday, and they were off together fishing the Drumly Water, by Lord Rintoul's permission.

They had fished the Drumly many a time without it, and this was to be another such day as those of old.

The one who woke at four was to rouse the other.

Never had either waked at four; but one of them was married now, and any woman can wake at any hour she chooses, so at four Corp was pushed out of bed, and soon thereafter they took the road.