five in the morning
`` It 's awfully g-good of you fellows to ask how I 'm getting on with Bully , '' and Nestie 's eyes lit up with fun , for he 'd a nice little sense of humour , and never could resist the temptation of letting it play upon our slow-witted , matter-of-fact intellects . `` And I declare you seem to know all about what h-happens . I 'll j-just tell you something about it , but it 'll make you creepy , '' and then all the circle gathered in round Nestie . `` I have to rise at five in the morning , and if I 'm not down at half-past , Bulldog comes for me with a c-cane '' -LRB- Howieson at this point rubbed himself behind gently -RRB- . `` Before breakfast we have six ` p-props ' from Euclid and two vulgar f-fractions '' -LRB- a groan from the school -RRB- : `` for breakfast we 've porridge and milk , and I have to keep time with Bulldog -- one , two , three , four -- with the spoonfuls . He 's got the c-cane on the table . '' -LRB- `` Gosh '' from a boy at the back , and general sympathy . -RRB-